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Originally Posted by Poe969
It's not the same because Kane didn't say "I want to play for a small market team" he's. Ade.it clear he will only go to NYR. The Flames could offer 5 first round picks but he won't come here.
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Originally Posted by Geeoff
In this case, it is a player using his No Movement Clause. Although, there are a lot of good reasons to debate whether NMCs are good for the NHL or not. NMC and NTC does favor popular teams and cities and obviously it does favor players over the teams
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The point I'm trying to convey is that the player mindsets have changed a lot in the last 10 years. You will see more and more players leaving their original teams that drafted them. Of course this favours the large market teams. However, in the past this wasn't as big of an issue due to cap constraints except now more and more players will choose to sign discounts with those large market teams and then those large market teams will also benefit through this "double retention" trade strategy because star players on expiring (RFA/UFA) contracts mostly have NTC/NMC will pick and choose their teams.
No player is taking a discount to stay with a small market team.
No player is choosing a small market team at the deadline if they have NMC/NTC.
The salary cap structure is starting to fail in front of our eyes and over time- there will be complaints from the owners amongst each other. The whole reason salary cap was implemented was to level the playing field in the first place.