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Hell yes, now that Skinner for Hoffman trade can never happen. Well, after the off-ice drama stuff it was probably dead, but I had zero interest in seeing that "hockey deal" so I'm glad to see it official.
Where was there a "Skinner for Hoffman" trade? I highly doubt Skinner would waive his NMC to go to Ottawa, in fact, I would think there was zero chance of that.
Or were you referring to trading Skinner to another team and then trading for Hoffman as a backfill?
I'd easily take a chance on him given how cheap he was. The guy can help this team win and given what has happened, he and the GF are likely going to go out of their way not to disrupt anything. I'm betting he'll be a model citizen in SJ.
NMCs are waived more than you think. If your old team doesn't want you, it's usually fairly easy to get players to waive NMCs to go to a team that does. Especially for a guy without a family.
Once you start making an argument that you are trying to "change the culture", bringing in Hoffman makes zero sense. If they stuck to the rationale of "we need better players" as Dundon did at the start of the off-season I can see arguing for bringing in Hoffman.
I'll be very surprised if Hoffman is still with his girlfriend after this. It's going to be hard to bring her into any extended team dynamic.
I don't think they are waived more than I think, because we know how many guys waive their NTC/NMC. I disagree that it's "fairly easy"because if that was the case, then guys wouldn't even waste time negotiating them in.
The cases we see where NMC/NTC's are waived are when guys go to a team they want to go to because they are good or upcoming teams. Nash to NYR, Phaneuf to LAK, Kessel to Pitt, Stastny to WPG (top team in the west), McDonagh to TBL, Kruger so he's not stuck in the AHL). Of the almost 170 guys in the NHL with NTC/NMC, those are the main (maybe only?) ones we know have waived, and every one of them is to a much better situation. It's not more often than I think.
What we don't know is how many times guys refuse to waive it or a team informally asks a guy and he say he won't.
He absolutely will, but you can't fix crazy if what is being said about her is even remotely true.I'd easily take a chance on him given how cheap he was. The guy can help this team win and given what has happened, he and the GF are likely going to go out of their way not to disrupt anything. I'm betting he'll be a model citizen in SJ.
K, except most of the players with NMCs are likely not even approached or the team has no desire to move them.
That's not the situation Skinner is in. He's undoubtedly been approached and he'll probably waive it to go just about anywhere in the last year before free agency.
And Fleury did waive it to go to Vegas. The sheer volume of players with NTCs is irrelevant
Many of these players are either worthless or teams have no interest in moving those players.
So Darling has a NTC, I see. Fantastic.