Kovalchuk stays in NHL, signs with Devils...

GarrettLeafs · Senior Member

Kovalchuk stays in NHL, signs with Devils...

BryceBruins · BRHL2 Co-Commish

you also guaranteed he was signing in LA

jdevils3 · Veteran Member

I'm quite glad he stayed.... even more glad its finally over. :)

GarrettLeafs · Senior Member

BryceBruins wrote:

you also guaranteed he was signing in LA

I thought he would sign there. I didn't think I guaranteed LA... I did guarantee he'd stay though.

philly · Guru

And all it took was a reported $100+ million for a 17 year deal!!

Wolves GM · Senior Member

17 years.... bwahahahahaha... hahahahaha... [cough]... hahaha...

jdevils3 · Veteran Member

Hey, I'll take that. $6M cap hit for Kovalchuk... now just give Parise the exact same deal and I'll be beyond thrilled.

chimoty · Senior Member

it will be hard to give parise anything when in 2 years, kovalchuk recieves 11+ million for 5 more

jdevils3 · Veteran Member

chimoty wrote:

it will be hard to give parise anything when in 2 years, kovalchuk recieves 11+ million for 5 more

I'm not following you? The cap hit is only $6M. He'd be the 5th highest paid player on the Rangers. The Devils should have no problem re-signing Parise.

Panthers · Senior Member

jdevils3 wrote:

chimoty wrote:

it will be hard to give parise anything when in 2 years, kovalchuk recieves 11+ million for 5 more

I'm not following you? The cap hit is only $6M. He'd be the 5th highest paid player on the Rangers. The Devils should have no problem re-signing Parise.

Especialy since Arnott and Langenbrunner come off the books.

Eric_Isles · BRHL2 Co-Commish

Contract was reportedly just rejected by the NHL.

BryceBruins · BRHL2 Co-Commish

lol

Sens · Guru

This is just stupid, was glad to see it over! I'm sure they will fix it quickly, but really how is this any different then any other long term contract that has been signed recently?

Eric_Isles · BRHL2 Co-Commish

Sens wrote:

This is just stupid, was glad to see it over! I'm sure they will fix it quickly, but really how is this any different then any other long term contract that has been signed recently?

I think that Kovalchuk was earning the max (or close to it) at one point and making almost the minimum at the end was a big red flag. I'm not sure how the other contracts were structured, but that's quite a wide range of money. Plus, 17 years was absolutely F'ing ridiculous.

Sens · Guru

Its certainly the most extreme case for sure, but it is the same idea as every other deal that has gone through lately I mean does anyone expect Hossa to still be playing at 41? Possible sure, likely nope.