Thursday, January 6, 2011

I Love That Kovalchuk Is Not A Flyer Today














LOVE IT

WOW. Remember when Jeff Carter to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Ilya Kovalchuk was all the rage in the rumor mill last year? I love the fact that this transaction never occurred. It is a classic example of "sometimes the best deals are the ones you do not make."

Next time "high and wide" enters your thoughts in any discussion involving Jeff Carter, take a look at the graphic above and note that Carter will be whiffing on game winning goals at a steep discount over the next eleven years, when compared with Kovalchuk.

Of course, it's entirely possible Kovalchuk may have fared better in Philadelphia with a different team, different coach, and a different sitch. We'll never know. But when you're dealing with the prospect of paying a player in excess of $11 million per season (as the Devils will be doing once his contract escalates in 2012-13), it's best to err on the side of caution and politely decline, don't you think?

Kovalchuk's deal with the Devils was literally a deal with the Devil. You need proof? Get ready to send this revelation to the Vatican.

In the screen shot below, have a look at the salary cap number, then kiss your Rosary beads and say 10 Sweet Baby Jeebus's (correct usage of apostrophe? Grammar Nazi's please chime in):

Salary cap numbers provided by CapGeek.com


For the next fifteen years, the cap hit for Ilya Kovalchuk is $6,666,666 million. What's not shown in this graphic is whether the the two digits to the right of the decimal point come to $0.66 cents, in which case, we're looking at a triple "666" - a Mark of the Beast McTwist. Incredible.

Decimal point or not, 15 years of a $6,666,666 million cap hit is more 6's than you can shake a Slayer album at. Spooky.

1 comment:

  1. Minus Twenty Nine. That is good enough for dead last in the NHL. wow.

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