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Originally Posted by m3thods
What's so easy about moving NTCs? Don't forget that the GM accepting the trade will have to then deal with a contract and player with a NTC.
You're assuming that players with NTCs want the get the hell out of Vancouver. What's to stop them from going to MG directly and asking to be traded then? I mean if they really wanted to leave Vancouver, why wouldn't they grease the wheels right?
The reason the players negotiated for NTCs (and subsequently took less $$ (much less in some cases)) than market value is because they want to stay here.
And armchair GMs always forget that with a team with so many NTCs- the second MG asks a player to be moved, he will likely poison the water enough that players both on the Canucks and around the league will look at MG's credibility as a GM and think twice about re-signing/coming here. Why would they sign here when they aren't even guaranteed to not be traded whilst signing a contract with a NTC.
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I don't think NTC are as bad as you're making them out to be, and there are also 'limited NTC' where players can list a number of teams they would take a trade to or a number of teams they wouldn't move to. Simply put, it just formally gives the player the power to determine where he will play, it doesn't necessarily mean that the player always wants to stay with that same team that gave them the NTC. Even without a NTC, players kind of have that power anyways. They can refuse to report to a team they've been traded to for example, and it would be foolish for a team to trade a guy to a team he refuses to go to even if its within their right. A NTC just formally involves the player to determine who the team can use as a trading partner, that's the way I view them anyways. I don't think asking a player to waive a NTC necessarily poisons the water for all current and future players, its a reality of the business.
There can be a number of reasons why players would accept waiving their NTC, not just wanting to GTFO. If they are struggling under the system their team plays esp if a contract year is coming up; wanting to play for a contending team; wanting to play in a nicer city with better weather or tax savings; etc etc.
If you take the Luongo saga from the past, Lu never came out and asked to be traded outright yet he was expecting and wanting to be moved, MG never explicitly asked Lu to waive his NTC yet was wanting to move Lu. So something has to give, its a bit of a dance