There's a difference between the Jarvis contract where he earns a signing bonus the day after his contract expires. And a insane contract where you defer over 40 years like these Oiler fools seem to think is possible.
I have my doubts that the league would approve a 40 year 33 million dollar deferment as its basically a blatant cap circumvention.
What they might not be able to stop is Katz making Draisaitl a spokes person for his drug store line and paying him outside of his NHL contract. But I'm pretty sure that league would go against that, because frankly the big market teams would go all in on it as a way to get around the cap, and we would be in a position of seeing the smaller market teams throwing up their hands and muttering screw this.
Also it wouldn't stop the Leafs for example from offering McDofus a league maximum contract plus a 40 year job as a grocery store stock boy at another 3 million bucks a year.
I doubt the league would allow the deferred contract, and even if they did the league would retaliate by constantly monitoring Kane's health with the own doctors to deny the wink wink strategy of keeping Kane off of the ice until the playoffs.
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