Speculation: 2013 Offseason: UFAs, Trades, What's Next? | Part VII

[aragorn]

I guess that frees up enough money for the Devils to sign all of the free agents still available ...

 

[Harbinger]

is there a reason why?

 

[Slow Hands]

Dude just pulled a Alfie

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

I'm not sure I understand how the Devils were able to get out of paying the full sum. Was it just because of mutual contract termination?

 

[Knave]

Terrible contract, it might be an awful few seasons but over the long term this is the best thing the Devils could have hoped for.

They could try to squeeze a draft pick back out of it and it might work.

As for the speculation about the KHL and his next contact, pretty hilarious. Maybe it's just me but Puck Daddy and all the KHL-lovers need a serious reality check. $20 million ? No. $10 million? Possibly but I doubt it.

The $20 million number is particularly funny. He's not making as much as soccer superstars - that's for sure.

He's 30, which isn't old but it's not young for a goalscorer either. And New Jersey has a problem on its hands - Kovalchuk leaves for home, Clarkson leaves for home, Parise leaves for home. LOL.

 

[Vesa Awesaka]

Terrible contract, it might be an awful few seasons but over the long term this is the best thing the Devils could have hoped for.

They could try to squeeze a draft pick back out of it and it might work.

As for the speculation about the KHL and his next contact, pretty hilarious. Maybe it's just me but Puck Daddy and all the KHL-lovers need a serious reality check. $20 million ? No. $10 million? Possibly but I doubt it.

The $20 million number is particularly funny. He's not making as much as soccer superstars - that's for sure.

He's 30, which isn't old but it's not young for a goalscorer either. And New Jersey has a problem on its hands - Kovalchuk leaves for home, Clarkson leaves for home, Parise leaves for home. LOL.

the numbers i heard were 12-15 mil but that may be for 2 years.

 

[Benjamin]

Kovy will probably get a ton of money from endorsements as well.

Also saw a tweet saying he made 15mil in the KHL during the lockout.

 

[Magix]

The only thing that was driving the devils offense is gone and no draft pick this year as well...


At least they didn't overpay clarkson.

 

[GrantLemons]

This is like the equivalent of Spezza retiring.

I feel for Devil fans.

 

[Tap on the Ankle]

This will work out better for the Devils in the longterm anyway, that contract was just obscene. Doesn't make it any less of a stinger for the fans though, lost Parise, Clarkson, now Kovalchuk with this year's 1st forfeited.

 

[MiscBrah]

If they get the pick back this was completely planned by the devils. Such bs they didn't give it up when they picked 29th.

 

[Lenny the Lynx]

If they get the pick back this was completely planned by the devils. Such bs they didn't give it up when they picked 29th.

Why do people think they will get it back? The circumvention already happened, I don't see how this changes that.... Am I the only one that thinks that? I'm surprised it's even bring discussed

 

[Senscore]

Das cold.


He's like a super-Heatley.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Why do people think they will get it back? The circumvention already happened, I don't see how this changes that.... Am I the only one that thinks that? I'm surprised it's even bring discussed

I honestly think it would be the right thing to do to let the Devils keep their pick

The team is have financial issues due to debt on the arena and if the League wants (and they should) teams do well it might be better to not kick them in the balls when they're down

I don't expect the pick to be reinstated and part of me knows it's the right thing to

The other part of me thinks that the Devils just got majorly screwed and deserve a bit of a break

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Terrible contract, it might be an awful few seasons but over the long term this is the best thing the Devils could have hoped for.

They could try to squeeze a draft pick back out of it and it might work.

As for the speculation about the KHL and his next contact, pretty hilarious. Maybe it's just me but Puck Daddy and all the KHL-lovers need a serious reality check. $20 million ? No. $10 million? Possibly but I doubt it.

The $20 million number is particularly funny. He's not making as much as soccer superstars - that's for sure.

He's 30, which isn't old but it's not young for a goalscorer either. And New Jersey has a problem on its hands - Kovalchuk leaves for home, Clarkson leaves for home, Parise leaves for home. LOL.

Bobrovsky... BOB was offered 10 mil. Kovalchuk is good friends with a billionaire back home. Him getting 15-20 is not out of the question.

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

The NHL is not, nor should be, in the business of doing favors.

If the Devils are looking for pity points they need to get in line, it's lengthy.

 

[Neil Patrick Harris]

Dude just pulled a Alfie

Hey now, he just retired.

I wish Alfie had pulled a Kovalchuk, rather than an Alfie.

 

[Pavlikovsky]

I honestly think it would be the right thing to do to let the Devils keep their pick

The team is have financial issues due to debt on the arena and if the League wants (and they should) teams do well it might be better to not kick them in the balls when they're down

I don't expect the pick to be reinstated and part of me knows it's the right thing to

The other part of me thinks that the Devils just got majorly screwed and deserve a bit of a break

They broke the rules you gotta pay for that maybe let them have the 30th but nothing more

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Hey now, he just retired.

I wish Alfie had pulled a Kovalchuk, rather than an Alfie.

Agreed.

 

[Sens Rule]

This is like the equivalent of Spezza retiring.

I feel for Devil fans.

It is worse then losing Spezza. Kovy averaged more ice time then Any of their D-Men! He played their 1st AND second PP on the point. He played on their PK and made it the largest offensive threat of any PK in the NHL since he joined the Devils.

Kovalchuk is essentially a PMD on the PP as well as their #1 winger.

Kovalchuk is the most irreplaceable player in the NHL probably.

 

[Senscore]

The NHL is not, nor should be, in the business of doing favors.

If the Devils are looking for pity points they need to get in line, it's lengthy.

This is for 2003 and denying Roger Nielsen a Cup.

 

[Knave]

Bobrovsky... BOB was offered 10 mil. Kovalchuk is good friends with a billionaire back home. Him getting 15-20 is not out of the question.

I doubt he was offered 10 million dollars. It was a rumor. I'm sure he got a nice offer but I really, really, really doubt it was 10 million.

He knows a lot of wealthy people in Russia who are semi-interested in hockey so maybe 10-15 is not out of the question.

 

[BonkTastic]

So I go to bed and all is (relatively) normal in the hockey universe.

I wake up, and Ilya Kovalchuk is retiring.



.... WHAT THE HELL, MANG?!?

There's like 180 pages of threads on the main boards... can anyone give me a concise Coles Notes version on what happened?

 

[WORLDSTARHIPHOP]

So I go to bed and all is (relatively) normal in the hockey universe.

I wake up, and Ilya Kovalchuk is retiring.



.... WHAT THE HELL, MANG?!?

There's like 180 pages of threads on the main boards... can anyone give me a concise Coles Notes version on what happened?

-Lockout
-Kovy plays in SKA
-Lockout ends
-Kovy decides he liked playing at SKA
-Kovy realizes he earns more money at SKA while being in his own country
-Kovy retires to get of his contract and play for SKA
-Devils are ****ed and functionally lost Parise, Clarkson, and 2 first rounders for nothing.

 

[DJB]

Are people seriously going to continue to say there is no Russian factor?