Give Me The Money

from Elliotte Friedman of CBC, Craig Leipold, Chuck Fletcher and the citizens of Minnesota certainly won’t care, but a franchise-changing week for their Wild re-ignited the debate over long-term NHL “cap circumventing” deals.

Here’s the thing, though: changing the rules is an even worse idea.

We don’t know what the free-agency rules are going to be in the new CBA, but we do know this: the Nashville Predators need to find common ground with Shea Weber. And, next summer, the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to have to do the same with Evgeni Malkin.

And, if there is a shorter term limit for contracts, franchise players like Weber and Malkin are going to have no choice but the start the negotiations with one sentence.

“I’ll take the max.”

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