Marian Hossa Potentially Retiring? Update: Will Not Play in 17-18

[x Tame Impala]

Make what up? All of these cockamamee contracts were the same. Pay them the $7M that they're worth on the market for 150% of the time that they intend to play and take advantage of the system. It's why the NHL made a retroactive penalty in the first place... because contracts like Hossa's were so blatantly designed to cheat the system.

Now he's retiring just when the contract showed that he would and proving to the NHL precisely what they suspected.

So you're saying you can't actually find a quote of him saying "this is when I'll likely retire"? I just wanted to be sure you're calling yourself on your own ********

 

[Guardian17]

I love how the Blackhawks released this on the day of the Expansion Draft.

Good for them.

Nice guys finish last.

 

[trentmccleary]

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...hossa-blackhawks-spt-0930-20160929-story.html

Uhhhhhh ....

So you're saying you can't actually find a quote of him saying "this is when I'll likely retire"? I just wanted to be sure you're calling yourself on your own ********

Yeah and Barry Bonds track marks were from all of the spinach he was consuming.

Oh you mean Hossa didn't come right out and say that he and Chicago colluded to cheat to cap system? ... Oh well then, case closed!

 

[Voight]

Going to be straight ******** if the NHL doesn't allow Bowman to use LTIR.

 

[oobga]

Going to be straight ******** if the NHL doesn't allow Bowman to use LTIR.

Why would LTIR apply here? It's just a condition he has, and he can choose to use the means available, which do exist, to play, or he can choose to not play. This isn't an injury from playing, it's just his personal situation. If he doesn't want to play, he should just retire.

 

[Syckle78]

Does anyone actually believe this is a legitimate injury?

Apparently a bunch of unbiased hawk fans that care only about his well-being.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Make what up?

Uhh....

Hossa said

Then

It's implied

Really dug yourself a whole there quickly.

 

[me2]

Apparently a bunch of unbiased hawk fans that care only about his well-being.

Provide it doesn't cost them them cap recapture.

 

[me2]

Gotta love HF posters caring more about a salary cap than a future HOFers health

If you cared about Hossa you'd want him to retire or at the least take a personal leave year away from the game. Cap consequences will just have to be dealt with.

 

[Lyons71]

Please tell me what is in it for Hossa to officially retire? He won't get the money that is owed to him.

Other team fans just want to see him officially retire so the Hawks get hit with a penalty. Blame the NHL for this stupid LTIR rule, not Hossa or the Hawks.

Bingo boingo. We have lockouts to keep player salaries in check and then the GMs just invent new ways to pay the players. Can't fault the hawks here or hossa.

I have more of an issue with teams like Phoenix picking up salaries of retired players like datsyuk and pronger.

 

[MurrayBannerman]

If you cared about Hossa you'd want him to retire or at the least take a personal leave year away from the game. Cap consequences will just have to be dealt with.

When they never have before.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

The Hawks skate on this.

 

[Callidusblackhawk]

Yeah and Barry Bonds track marks were from all of the spinach he was consuming.

Oh you mean Hossa didn't come right out and say that he and Chicago colluded to cheat to cap system? ... Oh well then, case closed!

I mean that's what you said happened....

 

[Vacheron]

The Hawks skate on this.

Agreed. All of this is legal.

 

[Devils090]

Garbage, but NHL would never punish their darling franchise

 

[izzy]

Cheating again

 

[Callidusblackhawk]

Cheating again

Again?

 

[Eisen]

I love how the Blackhawks released this on the day of the Expansion Draft.

Good for them.

Nice guys finish last.

And that is excactly what's wrong with sports these days.

 

[ColdSteel2]

And that is excactly what's wrong with sports these days.

And that's gonna change this time. Hossa is one of the nicest guys in the league, on and off the ice. That's why in time this will be remembered as the story of a fallen warrior, who despite a heroic effort, had his career cut short by a debilitating degenerative skin condition. Hossa was the Hawks' nominee for the Masterton this year. It's now apparent that the people closest to Hossa knew all along that his condition was progressing. Hopefully they find a cure. In the meantime, we miss you already, get well soon.

 

[me2]

When they never have before.

Like Thomas and Datsyuk. just pay some team to take him.

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

I think I might develop a sensitivity to my work clothes too if I was taking that big a pay haircut.

 

[dumbdick]

Obvious cap circumvention. Chicago is the guy at work who calls in sick after every Superbowl and St. Patty's Day.

 

[dumbdick]

Even if he has this mysterious "gunk"...
Why announce months in advance that you're 100% for sure going to have to miss a full season?

Why announce it on the day of the NHL Awards/Expansion Draft, right before the draft and free agency? Basically they chose the exact day of the year where the league and media are guaranteed to be most busy and most likely to let this slide.

 

[Barrie22]

Even if he has this mysterious "gunk"...
Why announce months in advance that you're 100% for sure going to have to miss a full season?

Why announce it on the day of the NHL Awards/Expansion Draft, right before the draft and free agency? Basically they chose the exact day of the year where the league and media are guaranteed to be most busy and most likely to let this slide.

And on the 1st time he starts being paid 1 million instead of 4 million or 7.9 million.

Kind of convienient he could play when he was being paid the big bucks.

 

[Eisen]

And that's gonna change this time. Hossa is one of the nicest guys in the league, on and off the ice. That's why in time this will be remembered as the story of a fallen warrior, who despite a heroic effort, had his career cut short by a debilitating degenerative skin condition. Hossa was the Hawks' nominee for the Masterton this year. It's now apparent that the people closest to Hossa knew all along that his condition was progressing. Hopefully they find a cure. In the meantime, we miss you already, get well soon.

I have no beef with Hossa. He's one of my favourites, too. I have little against the Hawks as well. My beef is with the league in general. Who can blame Hossa? I'd fight through an intertrigo (which is really very unagreeable) for a couple of millions. My problem was that the league didn't deal with these contracts properly. All the best to Hossa.