One of the few places players have any power is going into last year of RFA. Obviously not the lower tier players but the higher end ones. If they don’t want to resign with their current franchise they can, in effect, create their own NTC list by saying “here are the teams where I will sign long term”. Good recent examples are Tkachuk and Dubois.
That doesn’t mean that their team can’t trade them somewhere else, but it depresses the value of the return. Given the acrimony between Necas and the Canes, it wouldn’t surprise me if he played that card.
Pipe dream is he gives them one (1) team, and that’s one with his Czech brethren on it. In effect, forcing himself to the Bruins. But more likely is he only gives a handful of teams and the Bruins are one of them, and we have the netminder they need.