Vancouver Canucks Contract: What’s the Deal With Roberto Luongo’s?
August 10th, 2010 by Nucks IceMan Leave a reply »All this gnashing of the teeth over the NHL ruling of Ilya Kovalchuk’s invalid contract and the subsequent investigations into the likes of Roberto Luongo, Marian Hossa, Chris Pronger and others, is a lot to do about nothing.
Most of these contracts are now a year old and why wouldn’t the NHL have questioned these at that time?
Can you image if the NHL decided to void all those contracts? What a mess it would make as everyone would be scrambling to re-structure the contracts with their salary caps already at the max or over presently.
If you look at some of these contracts most are realistic in that the player would be able to play close to the duration of it.
Chris Pronger is 35, his contract length is seven years which would make him 42 if he decided to complete it to the end. The amount does not start to tail down until he is 39 ($4 million) and drops dramatically ($525,000) in each of the final two years.
As I mentioned in a previous article, since Pronger is 35 plus even if he did retire at 39 his salary would still count against the teams salary cap.
Does he plan on retiring at 40 ...
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