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NHL labour trouble looms
Brooks, in a nifty bit of reporting, managed to complicate an already complex situation by revealing the NHL will uphold Kovalchuk's contract, along with deals belonging to Roberto Luongo and Marian Hossa, providing a few conditions are met.
And the conditions are beauties. In essence, the NHL is rewriting the CBA on the fly. The three afore-mentioned deals will be grand-fathered but, beyond that Brooks reports that future deals will no longer be extended past a players 40th birthday and the cap hit on contracts longer than five years will be weighted by formula to the highest-salaried season.
Now here's the real kick in the groin to the NHLPA. If they reject this offer, the NHL, according to Brooks, is threatening to reject Kovalchuk's contract, void Luongo's deal and open an investigation into Hossa's deal.
Brooks, in a nifty bit of reporting, managed to complicate an already complex situation by revealing the NHL will uphold Kovalchuk's contract, along with deals belonging to Roberto Luongo and Marian Hossa, providing a few conditions are met.
And the conditions are beauties. In essence, the NHL is rewriting the CBA on the fly. The three afore-mentioned deals will be grand-fathered but, beyond that Brooks reports that future deals will no longer be extended past a players 40th birthday and the cap hit on contracts longer than five years will be weighted by formula to the highest-salaried season.
Now here's the real kick in the groin to the NHLPA. If they reject this offer, the NHL, according to Brooks, is threatening to reject Kovalchuk's contract, void Luongo's deal and open an investigation into Hossa's deal.
