Brad Richards, Christian Ehrhoff Prove Circumvention Still An Issue In NHL
After the NHL nixed a proposed deal between the New Jersey Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk last summer because the deal circumvented the salary cap, it was widely assumed that teams trying to circumvent the cap with long-term, front-loaded deals would be shut down, and that circumvention as a whole would come to an end. Two deals this offseason have proven those cap philosophers wrong.
