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Originally Posted by devo22
just went through their roster. Maybe that's just me, but isn't this an absolutely insane number of NMCs and NTCs?
C Elias Pettersson - NMC
R Brock Boeser - NMC
L Jake DeBrusk - NMC
R Conor Garland - NMC (kicking in next summer)
L Evander Kane - 16 team NTC
L Joshua Dakota - 12 team NTC
L Drew O'Connor - 12 team NTC
C Teddy Blueger - 12 team NTC
D Filip Hronek - NMC
D Marcus Pettersson - NMC
D Tyler Myers - NMC in 25/26, 12 team NTC in 26/27
G Kevin Lankinen - NMC
G Thatcher Demko - NMC (kicking in next summer)
that's 13 (!) players with some sort of trade protection, including 8 full NMCs this upcoming season. Aging team, too. They better figure it out next season and hope that Hughes won't tell them he's out next summer, or they are in for some really, really, really ugly years.
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That does seem like a lot (Flames currently have 7 with Frost and Bahl having one kick in for later seasons). Not that uncommon though (Vegas also has 13, Colorado and Tampa have 12, a few teams have 11). If a player is giving up UFA years and has options, NMCs are pretty much the expectations now. Nine or ten seems to be the average.
The NHL should have reeled that in years ago.
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Whoa wtf… how do career high 52 and 50 point Garland and DeBrusk have a NMC?
At least DeBrusk scored… 28 goals once. Garlands best is 22. Holy ####ing ####
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One of the weirdest ones for me is Zemgus Girgensons in Tampa.