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Originally Posted by The Cobra
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.
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The league certainly didn't like those contracts, but I guess it would have been hard to challenge them by a legal route.
The Kovalchuk one was so far over the line, they had a great case that it was completely unreasonable to expect Kovalchuk to play to 44.
And now we have the Hossa contract ending just like many predicted it would.
The intent of these contracts was definitely cap circumvention.