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[Report] Carey Price waives NMC for expansion draft


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9 minutes ago, gurn said:

If the league and NHLPA can make an exception for Price and Montreal; they can make an exception to the Luongo rule and remove the final year of penalty/recapture.

Hahaha as if bettman would do a favor for us. Effin weasel for what he did to us.

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2 hours ago, qwijibo said:

Let’s not forget that Montreal’s  season just ended. It takes time to get clarity on injuries like this.  Price and the team doctors may have assumed that any pain he was feeling was due to the stress of the playoffs and would heal on its own. After a week off maybe they started to have concerns.  Now he’s seeing a specialist this week. 

That's a fair point too.

 

Even if Price had concerns immediately, and the timing was all calculated, I don't have a problem with that.

 

Price is easily the most interesting player exposed, and makes the build up to expansion more entertaining.

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1 hour ago, gurn said:

If the league and NHLPA can make an exception for Price and Montreal; they can make an exception to the Luongo rule and remove the final year of penalty/recapture.

I think the exception is that players got a couple of days to mull over if they would waive their NMCs if asked by the club, looks like the habs didn’t ask so there wasn’t really a situation laid out in the rules and timings for a player instigating it. 
 

ive got no issue with this tbh 

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4 minutes ago, UKNuck96 said:

I think the exception is that players got a couple of days to mull over if they would waive their NMCs if asked by the club, looks like the habs didn’t ask so there wasn’t really a situation laid out in the rules and timings for a player instigating it. 
 

ive got no issue with this tbh 

Just looks like an original 6 team getting slightly different treatment.

Not a good look, imo.

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Just now, gurn said:

Just looks like an original 6 team getting slightly different treatment.

Not a good look, imo.

The deadline was to prevent a team from pressuring a player to waive their NMC.  Not the case at all here.  That's why the NHLPA saw no issue with it.

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6 minutes ago, mll said:

The deadline was to prevent a team from pressuring a player to waive their NMC.  Not the case at all here.  That's why the NHLPA saw no issue with it.

Rules are supposed to be rules. If there was no rule about this then fine Montreal is in the clear; however there was no rule about Luongo's contract and it still ended badly for the team.

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3 minutes ago, gurn said:

Rules are supposed to be rules. If there was no rule about this then fine Montreal is in the clear; however there was no rule about Luongo's contract and it still ended badly for the team.

The rule was made specifically to hurt the canucks and only them really.

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2 hours ago, gurn said:

Rules are supposed to be rules. If there was no rule about this then fine Montreal is in the clear; however there was no rule about Luongo's contract and it still ended badly for the team.

That might just end up badly for Montreal if he gets picked.

 

Teams were warned well in advance that those penalties were coming - they still decided to risk it.  It was brought up at the GMs and board of governors meetings well before the penalty was implemented.  Teams were also offered an out with the compliance buyout.

 

Gillis admitted that they were expecting that he would end up on LTIR - he felt there was no chance he could play out that contract.  He lost control by trading him. Instead of thinking he would end up on LTIR, he should have done the calcs and noticed that it would be more advantageous for Florida to have him retire.  Or he should have simply used a compliance buyout.

 

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17 minutes ago, sonoman said:

Apparently Kraken management has green lighted Prices acquisition.  Info.hockey feed.com 

can’t post link,  stupid iPad 

Price did waive his NMC, so he knew this was possible.  Maybe he wants to get closer to home?  

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3 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Price did waive his NMC, so he knew this was possible.  Maybe he wants to get closer to home?  

Seattle is a great place to end his career for a few reasons. I also hope Bergevin gets burned by this in some way, the guy is playing dirty. 

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1 hour ago, Alflives said:

Price did waive his NMC, so he knew this was possible.  Maybe he wants to get closer to home?  

Reports are ownership has ok’ed the dollars.  It’s just a matter if the new GM thinks it’s worth the 5 years x $10M 

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1 minute ago, qwijibo said:

There’s a rumour this morning that  Danault has agreed to an 8 year $5.8m per  deal with Seattle.  If that’s the case he would count as the Montreal pick and Price (and everyone else exposed) remains a Hab 

Interesting.  Do you have a link to this “rumour”? 

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15 hours ago, Jimmy McGill said:

Seattle is a great place to end his career for a few reasons. I also hope Bergevin gets burned by this in some way, the guy is playing dirty. 

It's a win/win for Bergevin. He can't lose in this scenario, because :

 

1. If Seattle opts to take Carey Price Habs would not only kept Jake Allen - the younger and cheaper goalie -  but also would got a ton of cap relief

2. If Seattle opts not to take Price Habs would have kept both goalies.

 

Bergevin's strategy was that Seattle would stay away from Price because of the injuries and the cap hit.

If Bergevin had exposed Jake Allen who the Kraken showed lot of interest in ahead of the submission of the protection list, it would have been a no brainer for Seattle (to take Jake Allen).

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4 minutes ago, qwijibo said:

There’s a rumour this morning that  Danault has agreed to an 8 year $5.8m per  deal with Seattle.  If that’s the case he would count as the Montreal pick and Price (and everyone else exposed) remains a Hab 

That would be a better deal for Danault than Montreal's deal offered  (6 years at $5 M):

 

The Athletic’s Arpon Basu reports that the Montreal Canadiens are likely to let center Phillip Danault test the market. While this may be a shock to some, there’s a sort of backstory to this. It was widely reported last summer that general manager Marc Bergevin had offered Danault a six-year deal with a $5MM cap hit. That’s still Montreal’s offer, according to Basu and others. Montreal and Danault are both keeping the door open in case he can’t receive better offers on the open market, leading one to believe that the relationship is still amicable between the two. However, it’s reasonable to think that Danault would receive a better offer from a variety of teams desperate to improve their center depth, making a return to Montreal anything but certain.

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Just now, Wolfgang Durst said:

That would be a better deal for Danault than Montreal's deal offered  (6 years at $5 M):

 

The Athletic’s Arpon Basu reports that the Montreal Canadiens are likely to let center Phillip Danault test the market. While this may be a shock to some, there’s a sort of backstory to this. It was widely reported last summer that general manager Marc Bergevin had offered Danault a six-year deal with a $5MM cap hit. That’s still Montreal’s offer, according to Basu and others. Montreal and Danault are both keeping the door open in case he can’t receive better offers on the open market, leading one to believe that the relationship is still amicable between the two. However, it’s reasonable to think that Danault would receive a better offer from a variety of teams desperate to improve their center depth, making a return to Montreal anything but certain.

Montreal and Seattle are the only 2 teams that could have offered him 8 years.  If the rumour of $5.8m x 8 are true you can see why Bergevin let him go. That’s too much money and term for a guy that doesn’t score

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