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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
well, one way or the other, the front loaded contract basically gives him all the leverage...depending on how the rest of the season goes down, I wouldn't be surprised to see Kipper retire if the do not report gets him too much grief.
for you and I 1.5 million is a lot of money. For Kipper? it appears that its not
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Kipper obviously was aware being traded was a possibility with his career, and part of the deal, that's why he negotiated an NMC for some of the years of his contract. Not like he didn't know what he was getting into.
4.5 years ago Kipper agreed to a guaranteed NHL contract to play hockey that will pay $35M dollars to do so. He also agreed that for that money, the Flames would not be allowed to trade him for the first 4 years of the deal with out his permission, but the last 2 he did not have that veto option. Now that he's played 75% of the time on his contract, and been paid ~90% of his money, he's decided he no longer "likes" the terms of the contract he signed. Not sure how anyone is defending this move, it's incredibly underhanded. If he wanted to control his playing desitination at the end of his contract as well, he should have negotiated