mouser
Business of Hockey
Reason I ask is because he originally signed a contract that had a NTC however it got rejected cuz he wasn't eligible for one. Was wondering if it was same issue with a NMC
Oh. I didn't know that. The section in the CBA about NMCs and NTCs has the same conditions, so if he wasn't eligible for NTC he wasn't eligible for NMC either. I suppose I was trapped by the same poor wording as whoever submitted that original contract was. I guess having a previous NHL contract that expired is a prerequisite for being a NMC/NTC-clause-eligible UFA.
He was not eligible for a NTC/NMC because he was not a Group 3 UFA [10.1(a)]. He was a different type of UFA--Draft Related UFA [10.1(d)].