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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I think it's actually more embarrassing that the league added a rule after all these contracts were signed to try and punish teams for doing it - even though it was 100% legal at the time.
If they didn't have that ridiculous "cap recapture" rule that was only implemented after these contracts were all signed then all these players would have just retired, went about their day, and it wouldn't have been a big deal.
Instead the NHL tried to retroactively make it illegal and now this is the outcome.
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There's no doubt the league has issues getting out of it's own way. Even after implementing the recapture penalty they have been pretty relaxed in letting teams like the Kings and Hawks get away with circumventing it. As you say it's made the whole recapture thing more ridiculous because while it exists a team needs only to come up with very weak reasoning to get out of paying the cap penalties. I'm still not exactly sure how the Kings managed to be able to terminate Mike Richards contract through "material breach" and get a cut-rate buyout for a player who's charges were withdrawn.