Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

[Lucas Davies]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

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NJ version of P K Subban...

What does that even mean?!

[Kerry Liles]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

in times prev many of you fronted on kovalchuk BUT WHERE IS YOUR KOVALCHUK NAY-SAYING NOW, UGLY MASSES?

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NJ version of P K Subban...

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

in times prev many of you fronted on kovalchuk BUT WHERE IS YOUR KOVALCHUK NAY-SAYING NOW, UGLY MASSES?

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

how the hell did this post get so many views!??! Ben and his spamming programs...

the cause of the high view count has been explained in this thread! please do not accuse me of foul play and technological tricksies -_____-;;

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the last one is my eye is covered up by my emo bangs, yup. gonna go listen to some american football wahhh bai bindi >___<

[Bindi Cheng]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

how the hell did this post get so many views!??! Ben and his spamming programs...

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

so, how are you all's kovalchuk-related endeavours going? i am going to be in four pools this year... i've managed to select kovalchuk in 2/2 so far

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

Type in "Where will Kovalchuk end up?" into Google and it's the #5 link.

The server host is probably going to get mad at Larry again though :(

interesting! google works in mysterious (at least to me) ways. i tried to find this thread by searching combinations built around "chess" and "kovalchuk" and only <kovalchuk + chesstalk> returned the intended result \:

<"ilya kovalchuk" + chess>, however, did return some noteworthy stuff: a bizarre reference to mikko koivu playing proverbial "11-dimensional chess" - key terms highlighted for your ease, reader! (; - and this clueless (both chess-wise and hockey-wise) analogy comparing hockey figures to chess pieces

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[Christopher Mallon]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

Type in "Where will Kovalchuk end up?" into Google and it's the #5 link.

The server host is probably going to get mad at Larry again though :(

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

How did this thread get 240,221 views?

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

http://blogs.northjersey.com/blogs/fireice/

ZOMG! kovalchuk hearing to begin wednesday... who else is hella hella hella nervous, nervous, nervous??

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

happy news, team ^___^

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2010/07/23/nhlpa_kovalchuk_devils_grievance/

[Ben Daswani]

Re: No deal with the devil

Les Canadiens should keep their money anyway - 'Chook is just another whinning Russian hockey player. Let him go to the KHL - the alternate Universe hockey league...

pure bigotry. just because he's russian, he whines? pretty sure kovy led the devils in playoff scoring and was one of their most physical players... but you're right, waste of money, habs do much better taking a >$7m cap hit on scott gomez e__e

I think on the sports news last night I heard them say that each of the last 7 years would have been $1million a year... very heavily front loaded then. I sure don't pretend to understand the cap and all of the details, but the salaries being handed out are absolutely insane - nobody is worth anything like the sort of money they are talking about in some cases. I am not a big fan of Kova anyway and don't really care where he goes.

it averages to 1m with exact figures of 3.5m, 750k and 550k*5

salaries being handed out could only be interpreted as "ridiculous" if you hate free markets O: star players create fans; fans create revenue. if players didn't deserve what they're being paid, owners wouldn't sign off on paying them that much... it's really that simple...

[Ben Daswani]

Re: No deal with the devil

rightly so...it is salary cap circumvention. if they allow that, why not allow a 100 year contract to someone for $200,000,000 dollars...only $2 million/year which would fit nicely in the salary cap. any mention how the contract was loaded (front or back)?

nhl shot themselves in the foot by allowing numerous cases of cap circumvention already. will be hard to prove to an arbitrator that kovy won't play till 44 but an injury-prone mess like luongo will play till 42...

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Re : Where will Kovalchuk end up?!

He is now a free agent without compensation again ...Will the L-A Kings will make another offer ...one thing is sure the Mtl Canadien have no money for the russian superstar .

nhlpa will probably file a grievance which they would likely win as a precedent has already been set to allow this sort of contract with hossa, lecavalier, lushitgo, pronger, franzen and zetterberg

[Kerry Liles]

Re: No deal with the devil

rightly so...it is salary cap circumvention. if they allow that, why not allow a 100 year contract to someone for $200,000,000 dollars...only $2 million/year which would fit nicely in the salary cap. any mention how the contract was loaded (front or back)?

I think on the sports news last night I heard them say that each of the last 7 years would have been $1million a year... very heavily front loaded then. I sure don't pretend to understand the cap and all of the details, but the salaries being handed out are absolutely insane - nobody is worth anything like the sort of money they are talking about in some cases. I am not a big fan of Kova anyway and don't really care where he goes.