NHL : costly play-offs.

Not only do the players make no money during the play offs, the series may prove very costly to some.

Too bad for Huet the Capitals late charge into the series did not come up short. After a stellar stint, he would have been in the driver's seat to negotiate a rich contract.

Four games into the play offs, with Washington down 3 games to 1 and his own statistics in the basement, he must pray for an unlikely reversal of fortune or shall settle for a yearly salary probably one or two millions below his expectations of last week.

Cruel times.

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