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Sensfan101
PickupHockey Pro
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 Posted - 08/02/2010 : 18:46:13
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Poll Question:
How many years do you think the maximum contract length should be?
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Edited by - Sensfan101 on 08/02/2010 20:21:57
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Sensfan101
PickupHockey Pro
Canada
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Posted - 08/02/2010 : 18:47:22
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I think it should be around 8 years.
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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
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Posted - 08/02/2010 : 19:28:27
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It really doesn't matter what people do. Max length, max cap, max number of salary years allowed on a team. Every single thing someone sets up to combat Kovalchuk type deals opens a door for a different way to beat the salary cap.
The CBA, as in anything else, is ruled by a single theory. Every time something is blocked it is saying that something else is open. Block the dollars, go to years. Block the years, go to something else.
Having a max length contract would completely useless in due time. |
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irvine
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 08/02/2010 : 21:48:54
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I'm of the frame of mind that, a simple (quick) fix could be something in the lines of:
When a player signs a new contract, that contract must have a constant pay (of the exact same value) for every year of that contract.
Example: Ilya Kovalchuk signs with NJ Devils for 5 years. Each year pays Kovalchuk $9M per year. His cap hit, is then $9M per year. No fluctuating, no changing period. The Cap hit then remains the same, per season, no averages needed.
If the player is worth (to your team), $9M a season. So be it. But, do not say he is worth $9M this year, but only $7.5 the year after and $4 M after that.
I believe this will help keep the cap hit/salaries very straight forward, and no team can then circumvent the cap by averaging out the cap hit to be lower, by front/back loading contracts.
Seems simple enough to me... I dunno.
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Posted - 08/03/2010 : 11:12:19
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I am 100% with Irvine, and I have always thought this was the fairest (and by far the simplest) way to do it.
The consequences of such a rule (every year of a deal has to be of equal monetary value) would have the immediate effect of no such long deals . . . not even for the Crosbys and Ovechkins of the world. We know they will get old eventually, and we know the goal production especially drops off dramatically with age . . . so the longest deals I'd guess would be around 8, 9 years for guys like that, and it would drop downward from there.
The NHLPA would be 100% against it, however, while the owners would be 100% for it, so it'd be a tough one to put through.
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Maximum contract length 
