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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
What Locke said. I'm not saying Lombardi is a genius and is doing it alone, but I don't think he is also "throwing crap at the wall and seeing what sticks" since he comes from a background of a lawyer ... its hard for any of us to properly say the whole context of this and who will win, but you can bet that there is enough there by the LAK/NHL that they feel confident enough to move forward with this and they think there is a calculated chance of succeeding.... otherwise they would take the simpler, more obvious solution of just dumping his contract for draft picks.
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Except like I said above, there's not much to lose by giving it a shot. If Richards/the NHLPA wins, the contract gets reinstated and they owe him some money. He wasn't playing in the bigs anyway.
I'm interested in the NHL's take. On the one hand, they would like to decrease players' power which would include more termination rights. On the other hand, they don't want cap circumvention. If the Kings win, how many more terminations can they expect?