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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.
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.
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This is just a difference of opinion. Those deals directly contradicted the spirit of the cap (including Kipper's). The NHL let it go for a little while -a mistake- and then they introduced the cap recapture penalties so that teams who tried to game the system would have to live with the contracts that they handed out and not walk away from them when they were no longer advantageous. Now there has either been an absolutely incredible turn of events that restore the original plan or one has been invented/exaggerated to accomplish the same thing. It's stinks like cheating to me and I hope they don't get away with it.