Filed under: Devils , NHL Free Agency , NHL Economics We’ve been down this road before, but it appears as if the Ilya Kovalchuk contract situation is finally, mercifully, close to an end result. On Friday, multiple media outlets, including TSN’s Darren Dreger, ESPN’s EJ Hradek and Tom Gulitti of The Bergen Record are all reporting that the NHL and NHLPA have come to an agreement on an ammendment to the CBA in regards to the long-term contracts that have become the bane of the league’s existence the past two years. The 17-year contract that the Devils originally had with Kovalchuk this summer was obviously the breaking point , dragging out his free agency to this point in early September

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NHL, NHLPA Reach Agreement; Ilya Kovalchuk Contract to be Approved