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BREAKING NEWS:

The NHL has rejected the Kovalchuck deal, saying ti goes against the salary cap. http://tsn.ca/nhl/

Ahahahahahahahaha

Good on the NHL

I can't believe the wikipedia page hadn't been updated yet... I took care of that though ;)

It had to be Gagne because, he's relatively old and fragile and his cap hit is huge, 5.25 million or something like that.

And lol and Kovalchuk, man I was just thinking to myself ... I will be 30 f*cking 7 when his contract runs out. Ridiculous, hopefully now it's more reasonable ... or he becomes a King. :P

There are interesting blogs on hockeybuzz saying uncle lou set it up to get rejected to highlight the flaws in the CBA.

I don't subscribe to that but it is an interesting take.

Please NHL try to be more professional

Just curious how did the HawksHossa deal happen if this one was denied?

But of all things to get in return another D-Man.  I believe they need a goalie considering the goal that won the cup

Side note great cup final lots of hitting and scoring.  I almost wanted the flyers to win game 6

The Kovalchuk deal is the height of cap-circumvention though. In the final 5 years he gets paid 550 per season.  Hossa gets 1million for his final 4.

I wouldn't believe it either, I heard that the team could be fined, and potentially lose cap space.

Everyone already knew they were ridiculous, Lou did not have to do it.

And like I said earlier the new cap space can go to Turco, that'd fix their goaltending ... just not for the playoffs. :P

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=801331&page=4

BTW there's a link with a table better visualizing how extreme Kovalchuk's deal was.

if Kovalchuck decides to stay with the Devils then all is fine but IF he does switch sides, his reputation will take the biggest hit ever.

I was thinking about that too. I think that he'd be crazy to walk away from the Devils at this point. I'd be really surprised if he did.