Coyotes to terminate Adam Ruzicka's contract

[Sylvanfan]

The Coyotes will probably ask the league to refund the waiver fee they paid to claim him. That or up ticket prices $10 a head next game to get the money back.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Nah they can only be tolerant if the player has significant value to the organization on ice.

Jarret Stoll gets arrested with cocaine and MDMA at a Las Vegas Hotel's pool, Kings do nothing.

Evgeny Kuznetsov has a video of him in a room with cocaine lines on the table and tests positive for cocaine at the World Championships. Caps do nothing.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...in-medications

NHL teams only tolerate drug addiction that can lead to lifelong debilitation if it means you are getting on the ice to play. Then you can turn a blind eye and you can implicitly encourage it.

You can also turn a blind eye if the player is good. You cannot turn a blind eye if the player sucks. Those are the rules.

[Inferno]

Ken Holland is hyperventilating right now at the thought of giving another player a second chance.

[Baaarrden]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I am not saying that Honzek would be connected, just that it would have been made available to him even if the video was meant to be private.

Yeah but it would have also been made available to Ruzicka's 14k other followers as well (and anyone else with an Instagram account since his profile is not private), which I have no doubt includes several of the Flames players and prospects.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by Inferno

Ken Holland is hyperventilating right now at the thought of giving another player a second chance.

Eh, hopefully they do. This isn't Kane or Perry bad. It is someone who made a mistake with a common drug in the NHL.

[Southside403]

Oh boy very sad that's to bad good luck adam

[gvitaly]

Hopefully, Rosie rebounds from this. The Flames locker room sure had a lot of personal issues it seems.

I'm also not sure how to feel about the Flames 2017 draft now:
Valimaki, Ruzicka, Fischer, Joly, Sveningsson.

Formenton, and Skinner were picked with the 2nd and 3rd we traded.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Bonded

Eh, hopefully they do. This isn't Kane or Perry bad. It is someone who made a mistake with a common drug in the NHL.

It strikes me that AZ really jumped the gun here. The Assistance Program exists for a reason. Surely a snap termination undermines that purpose.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

How is it a stretch to suggest that someone he obviously knows and follows him may have been someone who was meant to see the video? Maybe he was or wasn't, but it seems like an obvious possibility.

Honzek is a suggested follow. You are creating a narrative that doesn't need to exist

[sureLoss]

Officially on waivers

https://twitter.com/user/status/1761104194751107385

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

I smell future E=NG title potential.

Smell of E=NG is immutable.

[Locke]

What. An. Idiot.

[Reggie Dunlop]

He'd make about a fifth of his NHL salary in the Slovak Extraliga.

[dammage79]

Oh Roz. What a shame.

[DoubleK]

Jesus man. Arizona doesn't need to look like a bigger joke franchise than they already are.

[Scroopy Noopers]

If this happened with the Flames, I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t meet with him today and potentially go through the players assistance program if Ruzicka was on board for that.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

It strikes me that AZ really jumped the gun here. The Assistance Program exists for a reason. Surely a snap termination undermines that purpose.

Could be a mutual decision?

Or Ruzicka rejected treatment?

Even if he was a Teamster working a loading dock somewhere, his union would go to bat for him.

[getbak]

[dustygoon]

I say call in Big Erne to have a closed door chat with the team just to reinforce some ground rules.

[Ped]

I thought unconditional waivers could only be used if both parties agreed. So maybe Ruzicka okay with it.