Deron Treadwell wrote:
>
> At 11:30 PM 12/12/97 EST, DWollstadt wrote:
> >The significance of PK's contract is that he will receive $8.5 million in the
> >second year of the contract, and that it is only a two-year contract. Disney
> >had offered $7 million a year for seven years, which would have tied him up
> >for a very long time. After his two-year contract is up (actually, a 1=-year
> >contract, or a little longer), he'll be back on the market--and presumably a
> >very valuable commodity indeed.
>
> What will his free agent position be then?  Right now he was in a position
> (Group II, right?) where the Ducks could match any other offer he received
> and he had to stay.  In two years will he be free to go to whatever team he
> wants?
>
 
You have to be something like 31 or 32 to move with no compensation in
the NHL (unless, I think, you are below the median salary, so something
like that).  So even in a couple years, teams would still lose
something  like five first-round draft picks to sign him.
 
Dave Hendrickson