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Originally Posted by Savvy27
1) Hossa retires at exactly the moment that he planned to when he signed that ridiculous contract and the Hawks a heavily penalized for their cap circumvention
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It should be remembered that the contract Hossa signed was blessed by the NHL and was in line with others signed at the same time.
To call it "cap circumvention" was always stretching the truth in my mind.
The NHL could have disallowed it at the time, and chose not too.
Of course it was designed to lower the cap hit, much like Kipper's last year at $1M was designed to do. Which was, IIRC, the first contract to take that approach. And Kipper walked away from the last year.
Teams then started to push the envelope more and more.