Speculation: Flames will 'coerce' Lucic into retirement if things go south

[Jihadi Flames Fan]

Wild speculation that the Flames will 'coerce' Milan Lucic into retirement in the summer if he has another bad season, thereby erasing his $5.25 M cap hit from the books. Flames will gladly take the 3rd round pick and valuable cap space for a player who was essentially one of the worst to don the Flaming 'C'.

There shouldn't be much resistance from the Lucic camp either. Speculation is, if he has another poor season, he probably won't want to continue playing hockey either.

Brad Treliving you sneaky bastard.

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[super6646]

Lol what kind of speculation is this? You actually have a source or just saying stuff from your rear end?

 

[Langdon Alger]

Ok, good luck with that. Pretty sure you can’t just make someone retire.

 

[Dr Quincy]

Wild speculation that the Flames will 'coerce' Milan Lucic into retirement in the summer if he has another bad season, thereby erasing his $5.25 M cap hit from the books. Flames will gladly take the 3rd round pick and valuable cap space for a player who was essentially one of the worst to don the Flaming 'C'.

There shouldn't be much resistance from the Lucic camp either. Speculation is, if he has another poor season, he probably won't want to continue playing hockey either.

Brad Treliving you sneaky bastard.

Yeah sure thing.

People just willfully hand over millions of dollars for no reason all the time.

And it's not like the NHLPA would just gladly be ok with that.

 

[Pucklington]

Wild speculation that the Flames will 'coerce' Milan Lucic into retirement in the summer if he has another bad season, thereby erasing his $5.25 M cap hit from the books. Flames will gladly take the 3rd round pick and valuable cap space for a player who was essentially one of the worst to don the Flaming 'C'.

There shouldn't be much resistance from the Lucic camp either. Speculation is, if he has another poor season, he probably won't want to continue playing hockey either.

Brad Treliving you sneaky bastard.

Wild speculation as in a single fan in his basement? Dude isn't giving up that much money to do the flames a favor.

Flames made a bad trade and stuck with him.

 

[3074326]

I'm sure he won't have to think twice about walking away from millions. That's chump change.

 

[McFlyingV]

Lol ok.

 

[QcFlames12]

If Looch retires he basically turns down the remaining money on his deal.

Nooooo way this happens.

That contract blows but we are likely giving Seattle a pick to get rid of it.

The odds he does this must be under 1%

 

[Baxterman]

Why would Lucic just willing give up so much money?

This isn't a Luongo case where the player already made a ton and had a small amount left on the end of his deal Lucic would be giving up a ton of money to help out a team that he has little or no connection to.

 

[Coffey]

Hahahahah hahahahaha

But who will get into fights and turn the tide of the game if the Flames are losing?

 

[Langdon Alger]

Who is speculating about this by the way? I mean, other than Flames fans who want it to happen.

You guys are likely stuck with him. Best of luck.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

I expect them to be punished swiftly for cap circumvention

oh wait, its only the Devils that have that happen to them.

 

[InfinityIggy]

Yeah I’m sure he will be cool with walking away from 15M, like “no big deal Flames mgmt, I got you!”

 

[Patagonia]

Lucic forgoing $Millions? Not happening.

Congrats to the Oilers on a dumber team. Flames are stuck with him.

 

[coopooter]

He’s owed 4 mil 5 mil and 4 mil the next 3 seasons
In other words good luck with that

 

[Diamonddog01]

I expect them to be punished swiftly for cap circumvention

oh wait, its only the Devils that have that happen to them.

Well, and Vancouver of course.

 

[CraigsList]

Lol, what the hell? Never happening.

 

[Jacob]

They’d be better off framing him for a crime.

 

[TheScandal89]

Maybe if Lou was the GM, only the devil himself could force him into retirement

 

[Tobias Kahun]

You mean they'll give him side money, breaking the CBA and being fined as much as Lucic's cap hit and docked draft picks.

Great f***ing plan.

 

[McFlyingV]

Lucic forgoing $Millions? Not happening.

Congrats to the Oilers on a dumber team. Flames are stuck with him.

 

[The Nuge]

As has been pointed out, this obviously isn’t happening. Closed