Ha ha ha. How much is Katz paying this guy under the table to not play for a year? They have been shopping him all summer with no takers and now he requires surgery? This is why the NHL needs to do something about LTIR as it's making a mockery of the salary cap.
If there is one NHL player a team could probably blackmail, its Evander Kane.
/tinfoil hat
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Ha ha ha. How much is Katz paying this guy under the table to not play for a year? They have been shopping him all summer with no takers and now he requires surgery? This is why the NHL needs to do something about LTIR as it's making a mockery of the salary cap.
He paid Mike Smith enough to retire after Smith vehemently argued he wasn't hurt after the playoffs....never heard from again, and Smith never was one to bite his tounge.
Wasn't he just out golfing a couple of weeks ago, saying he was feeling good and looking forward to training camp??
The Golf Canada app certainly shows the injury isn't prohibiting golf.
In fairness; what's required to play casual golf and NHL hockey are pretty different.
The Golf Canada app certainly shows the injury isn't prohibiting golf.
In fairness; what's required to play casual golf and NHL hockey are pretty different.
But your wallet can lay a parley on both!
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The rules need to change on LTIR for the playoffs, IMO. That's the only way to solve the issue.
The league investigating - it is useless. Warrener was talking about it. What can the league really do in their investigation. Interview Kane? If he goes along with it, then he will just say: "it hurts". League is not going to make him play if he says he is in pain, regardless of whatever other tests are done. That opens them up to litigation, no? Forcing a player who says he is injured and in pain to play?
If the player isn't in on it and wants to play, then they just have to file a grievance, and then things will be settled quickly. There is an incentive for a player like Kane to go along with it of course - the option is a buyout? A buyout won't make him whole, and he must know that there are no takers for him on another deal that would pay him an equal amount, even factoring in his buyout money.
They just have to fix it so there is a cap during the playoffs. It doesn't have to be exactly like the regular season, but there should be some sort of a cap on playoffs to make it at least appear more fair.
Oldest team in the league. Usually those teams should be gearing up to retool on the fly and build a new wave of young talent to pass the torch to.
These stubborn oafs are instead flying in even more old players to squeeze a cup out of a fruitless McDavid era. Funny that the greatest player of all time needs more help in the form of more old hired forwards.
If Draisaitl doesn't cave and sign his life away for less money than he's worth for some reason then there's no way they'll trade him at the deadline either. They'd see it as conceding and sending the wrong signal to McDavid. But they need the bundle of assets he would return. It's a great conundrum, and I see them ####ing themselves out of pride and having a much shorter playoff run culminating in Leon walking to LA or somewhere.
If there is one NHL player a team could probably blackmail, its Evander Kane.
/tinfoil hat
They don't even need to blackmail him. The guy needs money after paying off his bankruptcy debts and sewering his career earnings. It would be really easy to entice him with some $$$ under the table to get some sort of minor procedure and sit out for as long as needed. Clearly no other teams in the league want him on his current deal so he doesn't have a lot of leverage. Oilers basically started their version of Robidas island a few years back with Smith and Keith.
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