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Originally Posted by GGG
The cost isn't an issue to the teams that signed these contracts. 1 million dollars for 5 million in cap space is a pretty good trade off. 1 million for 17 million in cap space is a no brainer. Doctors would look at them but take a look at whats his name in Vacouver who got the eye injury. He could play hockey but was also injured enough to be on the LITR. Same with Warener in his last year in Calgary. At 38 a lot of these hockey players will be broken enough to go on the LITR for a year or so.
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But the player can't be forced to stay if he wants to retire. A lot of time goes into training and if the player isn't up to it and wants to retire the team can't force him not to submit his retirement papers. Malholtra and Warener I think are different in they sustained pretty bad injuries. Warner din't have any cartilage left in his shoulder and Malholtra had a freak eye injury which I think both are special circumstances.
Can you think of any of the players that would stay a year or two once they have banked 80 to 100 million?
Bottom line there really are only a handful of contracts that have players playing well into their early 40's. Those are the contracts I think are specifically being targeted.