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By DevilBoy AtTheRedLine.com Blogger
Posted Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wow is all I have to say.
NHL.com is reporting that the league is now looking in to every “long term contract” to see if it violates the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Thanks to Richard Bloch’s decision that the contract the Devils issued Ilya Kovalchuk violated terms in the CBA and the leagues rejection is valid, the league is now armed and ready to go after any long-term deal and see if it does something similar.
On the NHL’s most wanted list are
Vancouver’s Robert Luongo
Boston’s Marc Savard
Philadelphia’s Chris Pronger
Chicago’s Marian Hossa
The league is taking matters very seriously. In fact, Boston Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli has met with league lawyers last Wednesday, August 4, before the hearing of Kovalchuk’s contract was finished. Upon the leagues registration of Marc Savard’s contract back on December 1, 2009, the league informed Chiarelli that they would be investigating the contract further.
Which to me begs the question – why did the league approve the contract in the first place? That’s the leagues fault for approving it – if they want to investigate it further, they should have before saying it was OK.
I will come clean – I was on the leagues side during the lockout. I believed a salary cap was needed. Things were getting out of hand, teams were going broke, and to be honest, GMs needed to learn how to better manage player acquisitions.
But this is going to get bad really quickly.
I won’t say I’ve had a change of heart, because I really believe the cap is a good thing. But I think everyone knows the CBA isn’t perfect and could use some tweaking. It cannot be tweaked on the fly like this – that is just wrong. The NHL cannot simply start to interpret the agreement differently all of a sudden and thanks to morons like Bloch get away with it. Maybe the two sides, the NHL and the NHLPA need to come together and simply define some boundaries, some limits of what is acceptable and what isn’t.
Ha.
NHL – you were right for wanting a salary cap. It was something the league as a whole needed. But now you’re just starting to look like bullies. Commissioner Garry Bettman, you better watch out. You have public opinion on your side and many players in your corner during the lockout of 2004-05. But if you keep this up, you’re going to lose, trust me. You’ll be facing a PR war that’ll be very hard to win. You broke the Players Association, but do you want to break the fans, the ones that fund the sport?
By Kyle Bisignani njdevils.info Webmaster
Posted August 8, 2010
Updates are on their way to njdevils.info! You may recall last season this site saw its fair share of dust and tumbleweeds. I am working diligently to not only rectify that, but also bring njdevils.info back to "the whole shebang" it once used to be.
I am currently in the middle of two major overhauls. The first is the NHL Zone, in which I am integrating this broken area of the site to the existing njdevils.info. As it stands right now, the layout is almost complete but more work needs to be done in order to match the look the rest of njdevils.info currently has. More importantly, I've updated scripts needed in order for the standings and league scores to update properly. This should be good to go for the start of the season.
Next, and in my book more importantly, the Devils Data section is getting some much needed TLC. The first thing done, it's now called Players. Next, I reworked the entire database behind the Players area and actually have data pertaining to all Devils dating back to their first season in 1982. Some of the data must be updated first and then you'll be able to sift through every Devil of all time. Once that's complete, I'll begin working on "Player Pages."
Another minor feature is going to be the recreation of the News Center link. Obviously I have an entire site devoted to Devils News at www.njdevilsnews.com, but I feel it should be integrated into the hub, njdevils.info, somehow.
A slightly bigger task is going to be updating all of the games from last year since none of them were updated. If all goes well, however, this'll be done before the start of the 2010-2011 season.
Finally, I want to clean up the site's layout a bit - nothing that will be too obvious to the visitors, but more back-end layout code that is antiquated and will help the speed of the web site. This should also include an updated Flash and FireLine program for the home page.
Again, I am excited to be working on this site once again and hope I can make this site a top notch Devils fan site once again.
Kyle Bisignani is the Webmaster for njdevils.info and the njdevils.info Web Site Network.
He can be reached at http://njdevils.info/contact
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