Comments on: Report: Next CBA could punish teams for exploiting loopholes

By: atwatercrushesokoye

atwatercrushesokoye — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:24:55 +0000

All of that is true, but this idea has Bettman written all over it, he hates these contracts so it wouldn’t be surprising to see him get back at the teams that gave them out, especially after he let his feeling be known with the Kovalchuk contract.

By: greatminnesotasportsmind

greatminnesotasportsmind — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:00:31 +0000

You’d be surprised. Bettman and Leipold are good friends. How do you think Leipold got word that Minnesota was going up for sale when he owned Nashville? Not to mention Leipold is part of the owners board who is working on the CBA. Not to mention Leipold has tons of cash. Well not him, but his wife, is the heir of the Johnson & Johnson Company who basically makes everything you use every day.

By: atwatercrushesokoye

atwatercrushesokoye — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:04:03 +0000

How many teams does this actually affect and which “influential” ones? Maybe the Rangers and Canucks? I can’t see the Wild, Islanders, and Predators having much sway in league circles.

By: hockeyflow33

hockeyflow33 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:05:41 +0000

***exhaustive

damn you auto-correct

By: hockeyflow33

hockeyflow33 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:04:46 +0000

Sorry but the intricacies and specificities included in these documents is so exhausted, and rightly so, that you’re left to the terms of the agreement. By including conditions and terms that not everyone is aware of, you set yourself up for a dangerous precedent.

If they don’t want lifetime contracts, include those restrictions.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:25:29 +0000

*isn’t what a loophole is…

By: elemeno89

elemeno89 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:06:01 +0000

i would love to hear the explanation for this one…

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:38:41 +0000

Yes, but that is what a loophole is, a technicality that circumvents the spirit and intention of a rule/law. Words, they mean things.

By: eugenesaxe

eugenesaxe — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:17:08 +0000

Dammit man, common sense has no place here!

By: hockeyflow33

hockeyflow33 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:18:57 +0000

The whole idea of a loophole is ridiculous. Everyone is playing by the same rules and if someone is able to find a way to get around a specific provision, so is everyone else. If you don’t want it to be in the document, amend it or add it next time around but to have unspecified penalties for phantom rules is idiotic.

By: blomfeld

blomfeld — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:38:52 +0000

DON’T …

I for one hope that they don’t go down this road, though maybe it’s inevitable in the end ? Though I do have to admit that even I “frowned upon” many of my beloved LA King’s recent contract signings, such was the flippancy and arrogance of their length. Nonetheless, I suspect that a lot of the financial “smoke and mirrors” which have been going on for some time, will now finally be brought to the forefront for a full scrutiny. This situation is starting to become quite dangerous … and if there’s one thing which rats have in common, then that’s a keen sense for survival …

By: phillyphever

phillyphever — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:28:12 +0000

Worth it? They lost Parise because they gave Kovy that contract. Hell, that contract is basically gonna help bankrupt the franchise.

By: jrzdiablo

jrzdiablo — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:53:16 +0000

“Part of the motivation is to limit future Kovalchuk-like contracts.”

That’s BS!

The Devils played by the same rules that every other team played and got screwed; losing a draft pick and paying an insane fine.

After the ‘Kovy clause’, teams still flouted the “spirit of the CBA”.

Bettman & his masters are a bunch of shysters.

By: 950003cups

950003cups — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:01:32 +0000

Devils have one guy. AND HE’S BEEN WORTH IT. Rangers will undoubtedly be hurt. But the Wild would get crushed if they include signing bonuses. Likely won’t happen. But I agree with stopping teams from burying big cap hits in the AHL. The max cap should be $1,500,000 allowed to be buried in the AHL. So of a player has a $1,200,000 cap, and is sent down, the team clears all of it. But if a player has a $4,000,000 cap and is sent down, then the team clears the max of $1,500,000 of cap space.

By: flyersgoalscoredby88

flyersgoalscoredby88 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:26:48 +0000

Almost incomprehensibly, this would be great for th flyers. No weber, no carter, no Richards, Briere coming off…they somehow have none of these contracts.