Let's Go Blues

And again, what is the problem? You can't draw up a CBA and then talk about intent. Either there's a rule against what the Hawks did or there isn't. They're not the only ones to exploit this loophole. If anything, the NHL needs to worry about closing the loophole, not penalize the GM's who try to g...

Shouldn't their defense be that "since Zetterberg and Franzens deals were ok, we thought this method was perfectly fine."? The NHL's problem was that Hossa's deal is the first of these ridiculously long contracts to take a player beyond age 40 (to 42), and that he is going to make only 3.5 million ...