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Originally Posted by JohnnyT
How many North American born players have actually retired and trigger a recapture penalty? If they get injured they go LITR ala Pronger who is still on the Coyotes roster or they end getting bought out. They have no incentive to retire and forfeit money, where as the Euros (Kovy and Datsuyk) have to "retire" to nullify their NHL contract so they can play is Russia
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There haven't really been many contracts with potential recapture penalties on them that have reached the low salary years yet, so it's difficult to predict what will happen in the future.