It will be interesting to see if the NHL brings anything up with the IIHF. The eligibility issue to play in IIHF tournaments was pretty much the only thing that the NHL was holding over players heads to prevent them from abandoning their NHL contracts for the KHL. Now that someone has used the retirement loophole, I wonder if the NHL does anything to close it or pressure the IIHF not to recognize retirement or something along those lines.
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