Hockey's Back

Finally these selfish goofs have gotten their acts together, sat down, and hammered out a 600-page document that should keep hockey where it belongs - on the ice - for the foreseeable future. It sounds like the league has done everything in its power to punish those who went out and spent tons of money before armageddon (i.e. the rich teams), who have only one option to cut salary - a one time buyout opportunity at a portion of the players' remaining contract that won't count against the new salary cap.

Problem is, these teams cannot resign these players after they release them. And get this - in a move that really makes no sense to me or many others whom I've read recently - there can be no renegotiation of contracts to make the current folks fit under the cap. For some reason that seems to me to have some legal question marks to it - but if it is under the new CBA, well, not much we can do.

Looks like the Leafs (and many others) will have some very hard decisions to make very soon.