Just hours after arbitrator Richard Bloch threw out Ilya Kovalchuk's front-loaded deal on Monday, the Vancouver Canucks confirmed the NHL is taking another look at Roberto Luongo's 12-year, $64 million-contract.

The report surfaced late Monday evening after the Vancouver Sun contacted Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis in regards to Bloch's specific mention of Luongo's front-ended contract in the Kovalchuk ruling.

"We have complied with the NHL request for information and are awaiting further instructions," Gillis told The Sun. "Cannot say anything further at this point."

Bloch's ruling specifically highlighted the long-term contracts of Luongo, Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa, Boston Bruins forward Marc Savard and Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Chris Pronger as deals the league is still investigating for possible circumvention of the cap.

"Each of these players will be 40 or over at the end of the contract term and each contract includes dramatic divebacks," Bloch wrote in his ruling. "Pronger's annual salary, for example, drops from $4,000,000 to $525,000 at the point he is earning almost 97% of the total $34,450,000 salary.

"Roberto Luongo, with Vancouver, has a 12-year agreement that will end when he is 43. After averaging some $7,000,000 per year for the first nine years of the agreement, Luongo will receive an average of about 1.2 million during his last three years, amounting to some 5.7 percent of the total compensation during that time period."

The NHL Players' Association argued that the already signed deals were approved and should be upheld and that Kovalchuk's deal should be no different.

Bloch disagreed with that point.

"The apparent purpose of this evidence is to suggest that the League's concern is late blooming and/or inconsistent. Several responses are in order: First, while the contracts have, in fact, been registered, their structure has not escaped League notice: those SPCs [standard player's contracts] are being investigated currently with at least the possibility of a subsequent withdrawal of the registration."

It is believed the Players' Association is ready to take action by filing a grievance if the league decides to overturn any previously approved contracts.

With files from TSN