No. He's contracted himself onto a SPC by the terms within and in the CBA. If he refuses to sign a contract, he's fully within his rights, but not reporting while signed onto a SPC will put him in breach of the contract. The only repercussion won't be that he won't be signed, he will also be a persona non grata within the league. The player doesn't have a right to terminate his SPC on the grounds of don't wanna.
Couldn’t he just retire? I am far from an expert obviously but at this point in his career couldn’t he just say “I’m done playing nhl hockey” and achieve the same basic result?
Didn't say I would take that approach, but if he wants to, that's up to him.
There are rules and Necas is 100% abiding by them. He filed for arbitrations like a bunch of other players did. Exactly what rule is Necas not abiding by?
f*** me
And anyone has the ability to breach their contract. It's breaking a legal document so it's not without repercussions, but he can do it. There are a lot of players who refused to report in the past, so this isn't a first.
He doesn't, but if he wants to use that leverage to not get traded and feels it's worth the risk, that's his right.
NYR would love that. They just want out of his cap hit.
There's cap repercussions when someone retires in middle of a long-term contract (ditto on "defection"). I don't think NYR would be very into that, and I guess usually it gets done by the LTIRetirement way instead.
Claiming that a player who says "I won't sign a long term deal to play in X place after my mandatory deals expire" is engaging in "trade manipulation" is an absolutely wild hot taek.
You're wrong.
I can get behind your position on the Trouba situation some at least, but teams have twisted guys arms in the past to get them to waive a NMC/NTC when they haven't wanted to, so it's a 2 way street.
The Canes are free to trade Marty to any team at any point in time currently. They are also trying to manipulate the situation by trading him somewhere, having him sign long term, and hopefully get more value out of the deal. He didn't deny those destinations, only our juiced up return for the trades that had been worked out to those destinations contingent upon him signing a certain deal. We could trade him to Columbus or Winnipeg tomorrow and I'm pretty sure he'd go there. We just wouldn't get the value we'd want out of the trade most likely. And there is nothing wrong with Marty using the situation to his advantage like we're trying to with a long term sign and trade type of scenario to ours. The alternative, which is very much a real possibility, is that we just hold onto him for now and look for a move that works for us as circumstances change or just play out the two remaining years that we are owed.
I followed the YouTube link to listen to this, I definitely think a lot of us could take something from the Rod interview. IMO he clearly struggled a bit with this off season. He thinks Pesce and Skjei are two of the best in the league, and he obviously does not seem to be happy to be losing them. He thinks things went sideways for us after we lost Guentzel and I felt like he thought maybe we could’ve kept somebody if we knew we’d have that money available, as in it was maybe too late to get somebody back in the fold by the time we knew we lost Jake. Rod said something about not liking the way we did things but did not specify anything in particular. He also mentions Waddell was a buffer for him, I take that to mean between Rod and TD. Which is interesting especially after TD tried to renegotiate Rod’s contract. He says we took a step back but is ready to move forward. He said something else interesting in there but I’m forgetting and will have to listen again. Talks about the goaltending. Definitely worth a listen.
We don’t know that he’s said any of that.
Eh, that’s not fair either. He’s not dictating where he’s going, all he’s saying is that he isnt going to immediately sign long term, forgoing UFA. Which realistically, he shouldn’t.
Exercising his rights?
He hit your girl or something? He has been one of the better players on the Canes over the last few years and its going to be pretty hard to replace him.
Pretty much relying on a lot of things to go right next year. Kuzy having a bounce back season KK taking a big jump he needs to be pushing 50 plus points. Necas to have a big year and a young kid or 2 surprising
We still have the guys that were our top five 5v5 point scorers from last year so we should be good.
