Around the NHL #5 (The Mike Smith Tracking Thread Returns)
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Social media is full of jerks, but public figures that can't understand they live under a different set of rules is a head-scratcher.
Are we playing hockey this year? I’m not about to sift through all the covid bullshit to find out. What’s the plan? Are we opening camps? Are we planning on any sort of a restart to the season? Are we skipping everything and starting fresh for next year? Is the draft happening?
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Interesting.....Are they going to test player for the virus? What if you are positive do you have to sit even though you feel fine? Or can you play but have a different color jersey because you can't check or be checked (social distancing). Would they need a different bench for infected players? Would they have to practice on their own? Will other players refuse to play against somebody with the virus?
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Interesting.....Are they going to test player for the virus? What if you are positive do you have to sit even though you feel fine? Or can you play but have a different color jersey because you can't check or be checked (social distancing). Would they need a different bench for infected players? Would they have to practice on their own? Will other players refuse to play against somebody with the virus?
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Half of the Coyotes roster already practices social distancing on the ice.
His contract is up as payment times have ended. They are not taking any money from him.
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Additionally conduct damaging to the franchise can sometimes be a breach eligible for termination as I recall. What he did absolutely qualifies. Lombardi canceled Mike Richards contract. He was out of control. Kept getting arrested with drugs and drunk. Not sure why Maloney couldn’t get it done with Ribeiro. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was to appease Tippett. Who ironically staged a coup anyway. Damn. Our club sucks ass.
Richards got caught possessing, Ribeiro voluntarily entered a treatment program. Pretty sure that's why the outcomes re: contracts were different.
A player that is medically ineligible to play again (as deemed by multiple 3rd parties) and/or in a treatment program should just disappear off the books. The league should warehouse them.
You can't terminate a contract for seeking help or being legitimately injured. You can terminate it for material breach or through mutual agreement.
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Ribeiro disappearing and failing to show up for team functions and job duties and missing planes prior to treatment might've got them off the hook. Obviously, it would be terrible to fire a regular employee for this kind of thing. But a care less about a guy like Ribeiro who had already made 30+ million. He didn’t need the healthcare to afford his treatment.
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Huh? If they’re suffering from out of control substance abuse and it negatively impacts their work, they should not lose their job if they seek help and go through the recovery process. If you sever employment, and they lose income, structure, purpose, and access to health care, you could easily be killing them.
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What is? Firing someone because they have an addiction problem? In some cases, you can't fire them for seeking treatment, but typically that's not why they get canned. They get fired for being late to work and poor performance.
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Just saw a Tweet that said the highest paid forward group in the NHL is the Preds???? If correct that is some really bad Cap management.
They have a good D all on good contracts, but I would think they would like to subtract $ up front and put a bit more in their D.
I see the smiley but would you rather pay the same money for the Leaf's group of forwards or the Preds? I'm not sure how you can say won less, neither won anything this year. But one scores a lot more goals, that's kinda what you pay your forwards for.And your favorite team is right there with them, and have won a lot less.
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Toronto is going to suck until they unload that cancer Matthews to us.
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12 teams per conference, but all games played at only two locations. Works for me...I'm watching on TV no matter what. Vegas has lots of empty hotel space. I wonder if that was a consideration? What about extra ice sheets for practices?
NHL boss Bettman eyes 8-9 sites for 12-team return groups
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