About the recent talk of American players demanding trades... Isn't it a good thing?

[PistolPete]

Having good players doesn't make an organization good.

Eh?

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

I think it's going to change the NHL after the Brady Tkachuk trade because it'll mean US players will want to either play on US contenders but also will try to play in low-tax states.

 

[Zarzh]

It might have something to do with the millions of dollars they are offered for playing a game. That may be an incentive to play in Canada.

If this were true for everyone then why would Canadians ever want or have any reason to play and live in America? Shouldn't they all just play for Canadian teams?

Well because Canadians in America have the freedom to do what they like, Americans in Canada much less so. Many rich Canadians generally prefer America too, or at the very least split time.

 

[Forge]

Better idea is to make it so players have to earn them instead of having them handed to them on a silver platter. Something like 500 GP for an M-NTC, 750 GP for an NTC, and 1000 GP for an NMC. Players who already have trade protection would be grandfathered in.

They basically already have a version of this. That's why there aren't 22 year olds with no move clauses regardless of how good they are. You have to be ufa eligible for a clause, I'm pretty sure.

Gms just need to stop handing them out to every mediocre ufa they sign out veteran they extend

 

[Chips]

Ban full NMC and NTC’s and limit how many trade clauses a team can hand out. The NMC’s are the real issue.

I think they’re an issue, but not to fully get rid of them.


They offer protection when the player doesn’t want to be traded, but if he wants to be traded he has to enter the request to his team on paper officially, and his NMC becomes a list of at least 8 teams he’d accept a trade to.

 

[Chips]

Yet Europeans have no trouble playing in Canada
Sounds like a US player thing

Because their home countries aren’t in the NHL.


I think it’s more about the familiarity of wanting to be at home. If Finland gets an NHL team with the same salaries, I’d imagine some players leave the North American conferences.

 

[LightningStorm]

Yes, I have found it more of a region thing where the differences are. Like east coast is mostly the same while west coast is mostly the same.

Pretty much. I live in Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest, commonly called Cascadia, largely feels the same with Oregon, Washington and BC. Cascadian culture as a whole largely transcends the international border within it. Most Americans there will feel more culturally at home in BC than New York, and from what I've heard most Canadians from BC feel more at home in Washington State than Toronto.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

I am leaning more and more about favoring (give more incentive) for players to stay with the team that drafted them. Maybe a soft cap or cap exemption for 1 or 2 player max per franchise. That would prevent some teams to acquire all talents via trade or as free agent and some players to leave the boat. Maybe even shorter deal like max 4 years.

 

[CapsSkins]

The system is fine. Players are asking out of middling or bad organizations and people are blowing the nationality thing out of proportion.

No issues with the Americans in Montreal. Conversely, Detroit can't keep their lifelong Michigan star. Why is that? In each case, comes down to organizational performance.

Ironically enough, prior to Brady's arrival Florida had more Team Canada players than Team USA (Bennett, Marchand, Reinhart) and their captain is a Finn. And nobody mentioned the weather or tax rate when Florida was a basement-dweller no player wanted to go to.

Marner left Toronto for Vegas. Tavares left Long Island for Toronto. No "Canadian migration" narrative there.

This isn't a political issue, or a tax rate issue, or a climate issue, or a NMC/NTC issue... the system is fine. There is a lot of parity in the NHL and the tides will continue turning as they have always done.