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Originally Posted by opendoor
I'm still waiting for someone to explain how retiring breaches his contract. It's clearly spelled out in NHL Bylaws that a player may retire at any time for any reason by notifying his club in writing. By doing so he forfeits any money owed on his contract and agrees to be put on the Voluntary Retired List which means he's ineligible to play in the NHL for 3 years from that date. The Bylaws even specifically spell out a case where a player is traded but retires prior to reporting to his new team and in that case the player is deemed retired and the trade voided.
That aside, even if he did something that was considered a breach of contract (i.e. failure to report without retiring), it's not like this isn't all spelled out in the publicly available CBA and SPC. There are really only 2 options for a team when a player breaches his contract by failing to report. They can either toll his contract and prevent him from playing in the NHL again without fulfilling the terms, or they can terminate his SPC.
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Plus he's not saying he even wants to do that. What he wants to do is play for the team he signed with for the full term.