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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Yeah but put it in the context of your current job, not $1 million.
If you had enough $ to retire, and going to work caused a terribly painful rash, would you show up for 25% of your salary?
I don't know how the league can really fight this. Would it be different if he was retiring/LTIR because of a Cronic knee pain? Back Pain?
Of course he was willing to put up with more pain for more $$. But that in itself doesn't make it cap circumvention. You can't force the player to play through an injury (which this is deemed as)
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Ok, but if he wants to play or not for the money is not the issue. The issue is that the Hawks will get cap relief from it and they shouldn't because they are clearly circumventing the CBA. You are absolutely right, Hossa does not want to make the effort to take meds and treatment to play for what is owed him at this stage yet he managed to do exactly that his whole career before his salary massively dropped. The difference between this and chronic pain is that he has had the condition for years and had no problem playing through it before with the proper medication. He can play out his contract, he has just chosen not to and the Hawks have used it as a loop hole for cap relief.