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Originally Posted by Jay Random
It's strictly forbidden for a team to pay anything to a player outside of his contract. If Katz wants to do that, the last thing he can do is be obvious about it.
Even Duncan Keith, when he took early retirement and a front-office job, caused his signing team to take a recapture penalty. Trouble was, it was Chicago that signed the contract (and played him for most of it), so Chicago got the penalty and the Oilers wriggled out.
Anyway, what were Kane's gambling debts? $28 million or something crazy like that? Katz is not going to spend that kind of money to save his toy hockey team $5 million in cap space.
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Keith's contract was heavily front loaded and so the recapture penalty was put in place to avoid cap circumvention wasn't it? Where as Kane's is straightforward and wouldn't required the same kind of penalty if I'm not mistaken?
My post was somewhat in jest. But also not really. Because we know shady #### goes on behind the scenes everywhere. And 28 million to a person like Katz is nothing for the adoration of a city and fans for lifetimes to come.
I'm just saying that something funny is going to happen with Kane. Book it.
Edit. I also highly doubt Kane's debts are anywhere near 28 million at this point. After bankruptcy court and certain proceedings I'm sure that number was greatly reduced and part of his wages have been servicing the remaining debt.