DiPietro will be a flash in the pan goalie at best. Wings will win the cup this year by getting rid of dead weight scorers in playoffs, but Hasek will he make the whole year? If he does he will carry them thru playoffs, my bet is Howard comes to the rescue
Grum, correct me if I'm wrong, but if he gets hurt and doesn't retire he still collects. The only way he wouldn't collect is if he decides he voluntarily walks away from the deal. Agreed. It's possible that he might retire as a result of the injury, only because he doesn't want to go through the team-mandated physiotherapy/surgery/whatever to get him back in shape. If the injury isn't truly career ending (a broken leg CAN heal, a torn ACL CAN be mended, but being blinded in both eyes is career ending), then he might not qualify for the insurance policy, so he'd be getting no money from anyone (team or insurance). In general, retirements usually get the team off the hook from paying the rest of the salary. I'm not at all an expert but could the 15 year contract term just a way of keeping his portion of the yearly Sal-Cap low? As I understand it, the total value of the contract is divided by the number of years in the contract, and that number is the salary cap number for every season of the contract. In this case, it would count as $4.5million each year, even if it's structured as 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 5.5, 6, 6, 6.5, 6.5, 7 If it isn't, then they've set themselves up nicely for the first 8 years or so, but if his skills decline at that point, they'll be in for an average >6mil/yr on a worsening player. Buying that out to avoid the salary cap hit (assuming the last 7 are to be avoided) would cost them $32.25million to dodge 7 years of dead weight. Someone should really look up the rules about salary cap cost for long term contracts and the buyout option... Either way, I'm pretty sure that Snow will not be around to see the end of that contract...
I remember reading that when Scottie Pippen signed his seven year deal with the Bulls that his agent and owner, and GM told him that by the end of the deal, he would be grossly underpaid. After three years Scottie started complaining about how underpaid he was and it continued and continued and continued for four boring years. How many years of this do we get to listen to DiPietro complain for?
How many years of this do we get to listen to DiPietro complain for? After signing this...this...this...I can't even think of the correct term to use...DiPietro better not complain about a damn thing for the next 15 years! If he gets a salmonella sammich from the vendor outside MSG, he better smile while they pump his friggin' stomach. To paraphrase the late great Doctor, "in his suite at Madison Square Garden, Isaiah Thomas laughed and ordered a methuselah of Dom Perignon..."
>Oh, and regarding the FPP: >15-year deal for DiPietro, $67.5 million. Second in length only to teammate Yashin, who's is a 10-year deal. It's longer than Yashin's, but for less total money.
I wonder how much the Isles just spent on Kozlov. Viktor has great potential, it's just hard to get him to show up for every game. He is awesome in a shoot-out though.
Whoops.
He is awesome in a shoot-out though. Or if you need something off a really high shelf.
What is the point to signing a person for that long? I don't know all that much about hockey, but 15 years? If I remember correctly, he is 25 years old... so they want him around untill hes 40? They could have signed a contract for half that length, and saved lots of money with taxes. Even if they signed him to a 10 year deal, he prolly would've been cheaper to re-sign when the deal ended. This seems like a publicity move more than anything, but for that price its rather costly. Like I said, I don't know much about hockey, so maybe im out of line- but this seems riduclous and rather unnecessary to me.
