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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 2, 2020 at 2:43 p.m.
Thread: True Out of the Box Clever Idea
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>I don't agree that it's "blatant cap circumvention" because it looks exactly like the Chicago-Toronto-Las Vegas transaction involving Robin Lehner. There is nothing in the CBA that says free agents have to be treated differently from roster players, that I have seen.</div></div>
There was nothing in the CBA that said that Ilya Kovalchuk's contract was exceptional, but New Jersey got punished all the same. The NHL explicitly reserves the right to smack down moves like this.

And it is most definitely <strong>not</strong> "exactly like" the Lehner deal, because Lehner was not a newly signed free agent. It doesn't matter that there's nothing explicitly in the CBA; the NHL will notice, the NHL will say "this is an attempt by Calgary to get Hall's services for less than what he would normally get", the NHL will recognize it as cap circumvention, and it will be smacked down.