mouser
Business of Hockey
http://www.tsn.ca/kings-terminate-richards-contract-1.321143
Going to be interesting to see how this plays out. There will undoubtedly be a grievance filed immediately by the PA. Most likely speculation is the team is doing this based on Richards training/conditioning.
As this seems to be venturing into new ground on the CBA and contracts I thought it was worthy of its own BoH thread. Please keep any discussion here BoH relevant. There's a Richards thread on the Trade forum if you want to discuss any non-BoH aspects.
The team announced the decision on Monday with a statement that reads: “The Los Angeles Kings today have exercised the team’s right to terminate the contract of Mike Richards for a material breach of the requirements of his Standard Player’s Contract. We are not prepared to provide any more detail or to discuss the underlying grounds for the contract termination at this time.”
Richards was placed on unconditional waivers on Sunday and cleared on Monday. The Kings were expected to buy out the remainder of Richards' contract, but instead have pursued termination.
Going to be interesting to see how this plays out. There will undoubtedly be a grievance filed immediately by the PA. Most likely speculation is the team is doing this based on Richards training/conditioning.
As this seems to be venturing into new ground on the CBA and contracts I thought it was worthy of its own BoH thread. Please keep any discussion here BoH relevant. There's a Richards thread on the Trade forum if you want to discuss any non-BoH aspects.