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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Quite true.
Players are free to go and play for a non-NHL team. They are not free to collect an NHL salary while doing so. Them's the breaks.
In effect, the league is a single employer, and if you want to advance your career with the company, you go to whichever branch Head Office sends you to. They can get away with this because they pay far more than any other firm in the same business.
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Or request a trade, which he did, and is pretty much always granted.