Moving away from the goalie controversy for a moment, is there a point at which we feel that we might want to look at compensating GMs whose prospects/RFAs or FPs abandon the NHL for the KHL. We have one prospect (Radulov), one RFA (Emery) and one FP (Jagr) - though only Radulov was under contract to an NHL team at the time - who have made the jump but imagine if the number is higher next season, and what if one FunHL team is the one that takes the brunt of the impact? I don't know if this is a big concern for other GMs at this point (not sure it is one even for me) but it could become one down the road and we might want to give it some thought before our own self-interest is too directly involved.
Speak of the devil. You can add RFA L.Nagy to the list of NHLers off to the KHL - again, not under NHL contract but is now gone for at least 2 years.
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In 1919, or 1920, no Stanley Cup final was played because one of the teams was stricken with the Spanish Flu--and players died.
Tragic, yes, but I believe the Habs sucked it up and put a new team out on the ice the next year. Which is the simple answer for us in this case. Your player stops playing in the NHL, for any reason, it is your problem. You may use the WDs or the ED to adjust for this, but it is your problem.
Until the KHL is of such calibre that it would make sense to draft players from that league too.
R.
On this matter Richard has the correct solution.
Suck. It. Up.
Geez, not even the league buying the poor GM a beer? so cold ;-)
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