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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Lucic has already waived once for expansion. I’m sure he’ll waive to almost anywhere that will play him. It’s for less than a year.
And lots of older players love Arizona, competitive or not. Shane Doan once tried to sue to say his NMC prevented AZ from leaving town with him as part of the team.
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There were rumours (or confirmation?) that he had agreed to waive his NMC as part of the deal to facilitate the Neal trade. So we could chalk up his waiving to getting out to Edmonton and leave it at that. No other explanation needed. He probably would have agreed to biting through his own legs if it meant getting out of Edmonton, but wouldn't expect him to do so now if asked by Calgary.
But there was also no chance for him to be selected, it wasn't at all a secret that his contract had massive negative value at the time. He may have agreed to waive it with the promise that the Flames not make a sign deal to entice him to be selected which would guarantee he would not be.
Also the Knights had made expansion teams look competitive, so Lucic could have thought in the 0.000000001% chance he was selected he wouldn't be going to a basement dweller like most salary floor teams are.
And there's a difference between waiving to go to Seattle where he would be there for a couple years with some stability for his family and agreeing to go to any random team as a soon-to-be UFA. Moving to a salary floor team would likely mean relocating for a couple months, relocating again as a trade deadline rental, and then relocating again as a UFA (or should he retire as a player, relocating to where he intends to start his next chapter of his life).
Plus he's from Vancouver so he's close to his friends and family growing up.
Still he has ten teams (I was incorrect with eight in the previous team) he must be willing to move to and players have all sorts of reasons to include or exclude a team from his list, so sure a team like Arizona could be on there but I'm not sure I would bank on it.
Keeping in mind that all the great reasons for Gaudreau to want to stay in Calgary instead of the idea he might want to leave to go home also should apply to Lucic not willing to want to leave too.
In any case, as a fan of Looch it sucks that it's almost assuredly Lucic or Gaudreau, unless Treliving gets really creative as it would suck to lose Lucic even with all his warts (which is pretty much his cap hit).
Also wasn't Doan's argument that his NTC meant his contract would be invalid if they moved as the contract stipulations were not met, and not stopping the team from actually leaving?