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Ya never know. Ken Holland doesn't seem to think so...
Wings general manager Ken Holland isn't worried either will be affected by the Kovalchuk saga.
"They're legal under the CBA," Holland said of the behemoth deals. "It's a creative way of bringing cap number down. With Franzen and Zetterberg, their contracts end when they're around 39 or 40, and we've had lots of players who've played until then.
"It's a way to deal with his cap number. Z is at 6.083. At the end of his career, when he's not quite the $6 million player, it'll have evened out. For the first six, seven, eight years of those two deals, we feel pretty good about the deals we got."
Theories abound that the Devils would have known Kovalchuk's deal would come under scrutiny given he'd be 44 if he played until the contract expired. Franzen and Zetterberg, on the other hand, would, at their contracts' end, be 40, a not-unheard of age for an elite NHL player.
Wings general manager Ken Holland isn't worried either will be affected by the Kovalchuk saga.
"They're legal under the CBA," Holland said of the behemoth deals. "It's a creative way of bringing cap number down. With Franzen and Zetterberg, their contracts end when they're around 39 or 40, and we've had lots of players who've played until then.
"It's a way to deal with his cap number. Z is at 6.083. At the end of his career, when he's not quite the $6 million player, it'll have evened out. For the first six, seven, eight years of those two deals, we feel pretty good about the deals we got."
Theories abound that the Devils would have known Kovalchuk's deal would come under scrutiny given he'd be 44 if he played until the contract expired. Franzen and Zetterberg, on the other hand, would, at their contracts' end, be 40, a not-unheard of age for an elite NHL player.
