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Old 01-22-2025, 08:23 AM   #235
CliffFletcher
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Originally Posted by jayswin View Post
I don't believe this as NTC's are absolutely deadly and detrimental to GM's in terms of trading assets down the road. How would any GM in the NHL look at a 4mil AAV deal and say if we paid him $4.5mil AAV we would have full control to trade him any time to any one and not do it? That seems insane to me. What are you looking at to come to this conclusion?
I’m basing it on NHL contracts. Go to puckpedia and look yourself - most players these days over the age of 26 and with $3m or higher salaries have some kind of trade protection. And if you compare them with players of similar pedigree who don’t have trade protection, there isn’t a substantial salary difference.

NMCs were a big deal 10 years ago. Now they’re pretty much the default in contracts for established NHLers. It’s a culture change in the league.
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