Ferrall-A-Vent Tuesday July 20, 2010
Kovalchuk Stays in Jersey!!
How great was the show having Jeremy Roenick in the studio last night and my old college roommate Scott Brady for a lot of reminiscing, a lot of laughing and a lot of old stories. It was cool and it was particularly interesting having Roenick in since we’re talking about hockey. The Kovalchuk deal with the Devils is what I particularly wanted to talk about with J.R. It’s unbelievable!! The guy signs a 17‑year deal to stay with the Devils and I don’t think it’s a bad deal either. I mean on the surface it looks like a joke that they would do a deal with him for $102 million over 17 years, but the bottom line is that the deal spreads out so evenly. It’s like $6.5 million per year the first couple years, then he gets it up to around $10.5 million for a bulk of about five years and then really the last six years of the deal are a joke. He gets paid, I think, $750 thousand in the sixth year remaining and then $550 thousand for the remaining five years, the last five years of the deal. It says he’d be 44 if he was still playing in the last year, but you know they’re not going to have this guy playing that many years. He’ll play for at least roughly the 12 years where he’s making the bulk of the money, and it’s a lot of money but, in the end, it will be like writing checks to an old veteran that still does leg work for the franchise. He’ll just be showing up at old timer’s games, showing up at the arena and being a part of their legacy and all the rest. But for the next 12 years you get Ilya Kovalchuk, who is a point-a-game guy, a guy that typically is going to score 50 goals a year if not more. He’s just an incredible player and he brings them to a new level. The Devils will be one of the Stanley Cup favorites having him on their top line and having a guy like Parise playing there, an Olympian who’s just as much of a bad ass. Now he’s going to get a new contract and it’s going to affect him in some way or another because they gave Kovalchuk all this money so they’re going to have to give Parise a bunch of money, or will they eventually have to trade Parise because they can’t afford him. That could be a situation that they might have to deal with, but next year, at the very least, they’re going to have two of the best players in the world playing on their team, and they’re just going to be dangerous. I know they’ve been a quick out in the playoffs the last three years, but I like the Kovalchuk deal. I’m glad he stayed with New Jersey and didn’t go to the LA Kings, and I was really happy to see the deal go down. Don’t forget, Wednesday we’re at the Hard Rock in Times Square for the Sirius XM Fantasy Football Draft, a lot of big names will be there and I’ll be there too. It’s going to be cool, just a giant party from noon to 4PM East, go to Sirius.com to check it out.
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