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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I can't see how a player is contractually obligated to a league. They sign the contract with a team but if that team for some reason allows their player to go that's just like scratching him for x games. Can the NHL really suspend players for this?
NHL can not stop the season but I don't how they can stop players from going.
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All NHL standard player contracts have these lines:
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6. The Player represents and agrees that he has exceptional and unique knowledge, skill and ability as a hockey Player, the loss of which cannot be estimated with certainty and cannot be fairly or adequately compensated by damages. The Player therefore agrees that the Club shall have the right, in addition to any other rights which the Club may possess, to enjoin him by
appropriate injunctive proceedings without first exhausting any other remedy which may be available to the Club, from playing hockey for any other team and/or for any breach of any of the other provisions of this SPC.
7. The Player and the Club recognize and agree that the Player's participation in other sports may impair or destroy his ability and skill as a hockey Player. Accordingly the Player agrees that he will not during the period of this SPC or during any period when he is obligated under this SPC to enter into a further SPC with the Club engage or participate in football, baseball, softball, hockey, lacrosse, boxing, wrestling or other athletic sport without the written consent of the Club, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.
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That language was what was negotiated in the CBA and agreed to by the NHLPA.