New York Post — The two-month saga is ending. Ilya Kovalchuk's contract with the Devils will be accepted by the NHL today after the league and its Players Association agreed on amending the CBA, sources say, so that the the league would certify compliant contracts up to age 40. The sides were said...
1 min agoNewark Star-Ledger — NHL, NHLPA agree to amendment to rules that govern long-term contracts
10 mins agoFire & Ice | Bergen Record — The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have reached an agreement on guidelines for future long-term contracts and the official paperwork is being worked on with the aim of completing it before today’s 5 p.m. deadline, multiple sources have confirmed to me. As part of the agreement, the 15-year, $100 million contract Ilya Kovalchuk signed with the Devils a week ago will be approved. The news that an agreement had been reached was first reported by ESPN and TSN. A source said the new guidelines include stipulations about how the salary cap hit would be calculated for long-term deals that go...
1 hour agoHockey Blog | ESPN New York — No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu. It’s Decision Day Deadline Day for Ilya Kovalchuk and the Devils, when the league and the NHL Players Association will might announce a verdict on the Kovy contract and other long-term deals under scrutiny by the NHL. Or they could delay the decision. Again. The only certainty is that, by 5 p.m. Friday, the league will announce something about the status of its negotiations with the NHLPA concerning the future treatment of long-term contracts. As reported Wednesday night by the Post, Kovalchuk’s 15-year, $100 million pact with the Devils ...
7 hours agoNew York Post — The suspense thriller that is the Ilya Kovalchuk saga reaches yet another deadline this afternoon. They've meant little so far, but time is running short in this case. As reported exclusively by Larry Brooks in The Post yesterday, the NHL is tying approval of Kovalchuk's 15-year, $100 million...
11 hours agoHockey Blog | ESPN New York — It seems fitting that with a $100 million contract waiting in limbo for Ilya Kovalchuk, a pair of articles discuss the idea of value in today’s salary-capped NHL. Yesterday, ESPN’s E.J. Hradek provided his All-Bargain Team (Insider), which was headlined by Devils winger Zach Parise. Parise’s production has been huge relative to his salary, but the Devils won’t enjoy that disparity for much longer as his contract expires at the end of this season. In fact, if the Kovalchuk contract goes through, they might not enjoy his production at all. But that’s another topic ...
12 hours agoHockey Blog | ESPN New York — If you didn’t already know, today’s a (the?) big day for the Devils in their quest to retain Ilya Kovalchuk. I’ll have a separate post on that matter shortly, but for those fans whose interests lie outside of Prudential Center, here are the morning links. Islanders NHL.com sat down with Doug Weight for a Q&A following yesterday's announcement that he'll be back in blue and orange. The chat includes the reason for the 75-plus day delay between the news of his return first breaking and the actual contract being signed. Here's an early look at how the Islanders project in ...
12 hours agoHockey Blog | ESPN New York — By 5 p.m. ET today we’ll finally have a verdict from the NHL regarding Ilya Kovalchuk’s latest contract. While the ruling will bring closure to this chapter of the seemingly endless saga of Kovalchuk’s free agency, the fallout will just be beginning. If the contract is approved, it will start a chain reaction of roster moves so the Devils can shed approximately $3 million in salary cap space to get under the NHL’s $59.4M ceiling. If the contract is denied, the NHL Players Association will have five days to -- again -- file for arbitration on behalf of Kovalchuk. Shou...
12 hours agoFire & Ice | Bergen Record — There have been so many deadline days during the Ilya Kovalchuk saga, I’ve lost track. We’ve got another one coming on Friday. The question is, will it be the last? After the NHL and NHL Players’ Association mutually agreed to a 48-hour pushback of Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline for the league to approve or reject Kovalchuk’s 15-year, $100 million contract with the Devils, the new deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday. We went through this drill a couple of days ago, but now we know the stakes are much broader than just a decision on Kovalchuk’s contract. The NHL and the NHLPA have been negotiating to m...
17 hours agoNew York Post — The NHLPA remains without an executive director after Wednesday night's conference call among the 30 player reps comprising the union's executive board adjourned without taking a vote on installing Donald Fehr to the position, The Post has learned. This means that the union will remain essentially leaderless in...
September 2, 2010

LW



| Sun 4/18 | at Philadelphia | OTL 2 - 3 | |
| Tue 4/20 | at Philadelphia | L 1 - 4 | |
| Thu 4/22 | vs Philadelphia | L 0 - 3 | |
| Sun 4/25 | at Philadelphia | - | |
| Tue 4/27 | vs Philadelphia | - | |
| Tue 9/21 | at Philadelphia | 7:00 pm EDT | |
| Thu 9/23 | at New York | 7:00 pm EDT | |
| Sat 9/25 | vs New York | 7:00 pm EDT |
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