Comments on: Reports: NHL may have agreed on a contract for Ilya Kovalchuk and the Devils http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/27/reports-nhl-may-have-agreed-on-a-contract-for-ilya-kovalchuk-and-the-devils/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Fri, 24 May 2013 04:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: StakeX http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/27/reports-nhl-may-have-agreed-on-a-contract-for-ilya-kovalchuk-and-the-devils/comment-page-1/#comment-6158 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:30:10 +0000 http://localhost/wp/3.0/?p=15067#comment-6158 If this is indeed true, I certainly hope the contract is legit. If it is, then great. If its still questionable, and far too close to the original contract… then the NHL is going to look like it buckeled as soon as Kovalchuk threatened to bolt to Russia.
While a drug out battle with the Devils and Kovalchuk wouldn’t be good, it also wouldn’t be good at all for the NHL to get the reputation that players can push them around.

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