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Originally Posted by moon
Slighty OT but any reason why the no walk away if under 3.5 million clause was included in the CBA?
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Not OT at all, I was wondering this too. This is interesting:
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Originally Posted by moon
Salary Arbitration Walk Away rights will be limited to awards equal to or greater than $3.5 million per annum (which amount shall be indexed to the percentage increase in ALS starting with 2013/14 as the base year, with 2014/15 being the first year such increase shall take effect)..
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http://www.nhl.com/nhl/en/v3/ext/CBA...%20%281%29.pdf
Meaning it is $3.5 million this year and will be going up if the ALS goes up which will surely increase when the cap increases. Maybe too many teams were letting lower end players go to arbitration instead of actually negotiating with them? Maybe this is the NHL's way to try and save some arbitration resources? I'm not sure.