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Originally Posted by kehatch
Brian Lawton just tweeted that Kovalchuk retires, NJ terminates the contract, then he is free to play in the KHL. Or he could play with another team in the NHL. According to him.
Doesn't make much sense to me though. Otherwise why wouldn't Luongo just retire?
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Yah, that doesn't make sense at all. If that's the case, what's to prevent players who think they're underpaid, to retire, and then re-sign with another NHL team for higher contract dollars?