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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Part of the new CBA to prevent teams from signing over 35 year old players to long contracts they know they won't play to the end of to prevent lowering the cap hit by having low paying years on the back end deals that won't ever occur.
So if you sign a player over 35 it's buyer beware and you need to be certain the player will play out their full contract or you are on the hook even if they retire.
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Ya I think I knew that but just assumed he would be going to play hockey in Russia as well. I guess either way he would be retiring from the NHL. It's just strange all around that he would walk away from 7.5M.