Lightning and Devils Use Gagne and Kovalchuk to Show Different Approaches to Cap
It’s pretty perfect that Ilya Kovalchuk was signed to a massive contract by the Devils on the same day the Lightning traded for Simon Gagne.
It shows the two styles of managing in the NHL.
On the one hand, you have the Devils going for the expensive, long-term contract. In Kovalchuk’s case, it’s 17 years, $102 million, [...]


