NO, per bern NO MO NMCs TO ANYBODY FOR ANY REASON, PERIOD
will consider extensive ntcs on isolated case by case basis
not good enuf for Shesty TRADE HIM NOW
I’m not a fan of NTC’s Bern. But I’m a realist.
If you want to be firm on having no NTC’s then you’re not signing or retaining star/exceptional talent. No talented veteran player is signing a longterm contract without some protection. You yourself wouldn’t.
If you’re a GM who’s going to try and “EA” himself to building a championship team, by using players and repeatedly pawning them off for max gains, then nobody is going to want to sign with you. And you won’t
ever win a Cup. You’ll get a reputation. Veteran players have families. They want security.
The problem isn’t NTC’s. They’re appropriate for certain players. Nobody here is bitching about Fox’s NTC. The problem is giving those clauses to guys that you may not want for their entire contract. Those are obvious. The Goodrow’s, for example.
Zibanejad? We all bitched when we saw that contract. Kreiders? Not so much. Trouba’s? Sure, but we didn’t have Fox then, nor did we know that Covid was going to castrate the cap.
11X6 is my ideal, realistic offer for Shesty. With a full NMC. That takes him to 36. If he wants more money or years, then I’m playing hardball on the terms of the NMC.
8 years 90~95M with a limited NTC after a few seasons is my guess on what will actually happen. It’ll suck. But this is the Rangers way of doing shit.