Not to be outdown by some basketball twerps who were obviously most likely going to end up in Miami, the NHL set about their arbitrator to solve Lou Lamoriello's experimental in-your-face-and-up-your-CBA contract, taking a few days to say "this be bad". Meanwhile, those other nefarious contracts that were under investigation a year ago but quietly forgotten about, were remembered, and are now apparently also under investigation. Pandora's Box is opened. This was the whole point behind Lou's experiment! And the NHL fell for it.
In other news, the KHL likes The Kovalchuk Contract Conundrum. *Thumbs up*
3 comments:
no more kovalchuk
people should not make 100 million dollars for playing a game for a couple of years. there's something wrong there
Alex, it's not the contract; it's the precedent. Based on this ruling, the NHL can now go after anyone they damn well please, with no quantifiable basis for their judgment that a contract is illegitimate. "Because the NHL says so" is unfortunately the only rubric required now.
There is no cutoff date for a player's age at the contract's expiration, nor is there a maximum contract length in the current CBA. The NHL can be completely arbitrary in whom it seeks to go after. See Zetterberg's and Lecavalier's contracts and contrast them with the oens the NHL has chosen to persecute.
Basically, the NHL now feels it has carte blanche to redistribute not only wealth (see Coyotes, Phoenix) but now also players. I wonder how you'll feel when the NHL decides to punish your favorite team for signing a good player.
Consequences will never be the same, I take it.
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