This entire fiasco isn’t some grand conspiracy, etc. Although, if you’ve traded for an Ottawa player recently, you may want to make sure it isn’t the case with your player too.
Someone in Ottawa’s front office obviously screwed up. Teams don’t use Cap Friendly, though maybe they should check it as part of their due diligence trading for a player…
There’s also very few players who have a NMC.. in the grand scheme of things anyway. Traded twice during it? Almost never happens. Hell, maybe Ottawa thought it only applied to them and it didn’t move with the contract. Who knows.
When he was traded to Vegas, Ottawa didn’t technically have to mention it (during that transaction, to get it done) because Vegas wasn’t on that list. Even if they thought it was valid. Whether it was ever discussed at all, we don’t know but it wasnt an obligation to complete THAT trade. The player obviously never said anything either because Vegas wasn’t on that list.
So it looks like it just got lost in the shuffle somewhere.
That said, obviously Ottawa should have mentioned it, and should’ve supplied Vegas with that list after the transaction. Just seems like they forgot or like I said, misunderstood.
The NHL needs to obviously secure this from every happening again.