They were trying to trade him too..shady.
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NHL Off-Season 2015 |OT| With the first pick the LA Kings are proud to select...
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They were trying to trade him too..shady.
It must be something recent or they could have done it when they demoted him to the AHL.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Considering what Talbot got (not much more than Lack) I'd say it was reasonable. Lack is good but not elite, and I guess Carolina lost faith in Khudobin. Would be interesting to see what they do once Ward's contract is up since I don't think Lack can be a true No.1. I suppose they have some goalie prospects in their pipeline.
Wow at that Niemi contract. Kind of reasonable since he'll be 34 when the contract is up, but what about Lehtonen? Really expensive 1A/1B situation.
Cooked up cocaine and sprinkled it on him.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Richards is a Columbian drug lord confirmed.
HadesGigas
Member
Yeah it seems kinda wrong of them to go through all these motions like trade talks and waivers, things that would have landed him on other teams in theory, if he was in violation of his contract in some way.
That's true. It's fishy, but maybe LA had something on him and was using it as a contingency plan.
bonesmccoy
Banned
NHL needs more contract wiggle room for teams and players.
Yeah, he should definitely fight it.
You can do a one sided contract termination under certain conditions, he breached a term in his contract.
I believe you can appeal the termination, but depending on the issue he might not be able to.
Unhandled Exception
Member
No one wanted him, they probably offered him a line of coke and ripped up his contract on the spot when he accepted.
Purple Cheeto
Member
This Kings offseason has been so fucking weird so far.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
No, they absolutely don't. Stop making stupid as shit decisions of you don't want to get burned.
Well, I figured that part. I just meant, what new situation suddenly happened that allowed the Kings to terminate his contract.
I can maybe see Richards signing an amendment to his contract (if this is even a thing in the NHL) that requires him to meet certain conditions to keep his deal that he clearly didn't end up keeping up with.
It better be something big, not just he was lazy at working out.
From @FriedgeHNIC
So it's clearly (a) and not (b) as he hasn't failed to report. I think we can all agree that it would be tough to be *so* out of shape as to constitute a "material breach" of the contract so it must presumably be the "conduct" part, which could easily be other off ice issues that impact his performance.
EDIT: also, hehehe
So yeah, as of right now the Kings are free of his contract entirely and Richards is a UFA. But he's a UFA that just got fucked out of his remaining contract. That grievance is going to take a while to sort out.
EDIT 2:
So it's clearly (a) and not (b) as he hasn't failed to report. I think we can all agree that it would be tough to be *so* out of shape as to constitute a "material breach" of the contract so it must presumably be the "conduct" part, which could easily be other off ice issues that impact his performance.
EDIT: also, hehehe
So yeah, as of right now the Kings are free of his contract entirely and Richards is a UFA. But he's a UFA that just got fucked out of his remaining contract. That grievance is going to take a while to sort out.
EDIT 2:
I just looked this up, Jeff Carter is/was also sponsored.
Terrordactyl
Member
Of course he is
Ha, that's exactly what I said.
Unhandled Exception
Member
He probably will get one behind closed doors. I'll bet whatever the reason ends up being is sound enough to uphold.
bonesmccoy
Banned
I would say, if the worst thing that will happen is Richards' contract and cap hit going back on their books, it's an acceptable risk for the Kings to take.
The Commish is in fact the one and only arbitrator of disputes in regards to terminating contracts. So he's going to have to rule on it.
You'd think the Kings attempts to trade him up to a couple of days ago is going to really hurt their argument. I guess we'll have to see what their rationale is and how convincing it is, assuming Richards fights their attempt. And for 22 million dollars who wouldn't lawyer up? He's not going to make a fraction of that on his next contract.
The fact that literally every single article about this story mentions the Kings perhaps doing it for cap relief isn't going to help their case either.
Terrordactyl
Member
There's no fucking way they get away with this right?
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
I'm thinking even if they lose the appeal they just have to pay Mike Richards but none of it counts against the cap. Which is a win for the Kings either way.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
The Jets should look into Richards as a cheap pickup, we're too far behind the times to have cocaine here. It's all solvents and alcohol.
Although he'd be close to his home in Kenora, and presumably he has a hookup there...
No, they were happy he was working on his upper body strength, unlike Richards.
Unhandled Exception
Member
I'm sure anything that doesn't effect the player's performance gets overlooked all the time.
Fata1moose
Banned
Widespread, from Philadelphia to Columbus and LA, there seems to be some kind of trail.
Terminating a contract is a pretty big deal. They must have strong evidence against Richards to take a step like this.
Why didn't they just leave him in the AHL like the Rangers did with their bad contracts? It doesn't seem like the Kings are hurting for cash.
Why didn't they just leave him in the AHL like the Rangers did with their bad contracts? It doesn't seem like the Kings are hurting for cash.
ActStriker
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Aren't they hurting on the cap?
Coalesced from Reddit:
(a) fail, refuse, or neglect to obey the Club's rules governing training and conduct of Players, if such failure, refusal or neglect should constitute a material breach of this SPC.
and:
As @mayorNHL reported, the Kings asked 10 to stay in LA for training and he refused.
https://twitter.com/olympichero03/status/615595646427369472
Unsure of how big a factor that could be.
(a) fail, refuse, or neglect to obey the Club's rules governing training and conduct of Players, if such failure, refusal or neglect should constitute a material breach of this SPC.
and:
As @mayorNHL reported, the Kings asked 10 to stay in LA for training and he refused.
https://twitter.com/olympichero03/status/615595646427369472
Unsure of how big a factor that could be.
They would only get them $925K in cap space. They changed the rules after the Rangers stashed Redden's contract in the AHL.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
League was informed and I guess evidence was good enough to be approved. Otherwise it wouldn't be announced.
NHLPA gonna have a say though.
Richards already removed from Kings roster on nhl.com
NHLPA gonna have a say though.
Richards already removed from Kings roster on nhl.com