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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I am going to beat this dead horse because it just came up in another thread, but the way the NHL has very low restrictions and requirements for NMCs and NTCs is a big part of the problem. It's no secret that most Canadian teams make up most of the teams on no-trade lists. This severely limits a major tool for managers to build their teams. There are over 200 players in the league now with some form of NMC, and most of them are the best players in the league, and you can be sure that most of them have at least a few Canadian teams as places they can't be traded to.
Other leagues don't allow this, and as long as it stays like this, Canadian teams will need to be very lucky in order to have long sustained success these days.
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Don't forget Norris winners like Fox refusing top sign with a Canadian team.
30 years without a Stanley Cup seems to indicate there is a problem.