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Originally Posted by GioforPM
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?
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It isn't just that the Kings would "owe him some money", but that most of that money would hose LA's cap. So that puts the NHL in a very tough spot - the buy out window is done and gone, and his waiver clearance will likewise expire long before this settles. So what does the NHL do if the Kings lose the grievance? Do they allow the Kings to circumvent the rules with a special buy-out window? Or do they hold the Kings to the deal?
And if the NHL were to allow the buy-out window, what does the union do? Does it fight just as hard against that window? Or does it allow the buy-out so that Richards gets a good chunk of his money, and then other players also get paid due to the space cap created?
There are a lot of moving pieces on this board.