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Mapleson

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Forum: NHLJan. 16, 2018 at 1:09 p.m.
Thread: Letting Players Slip Through Waivers - A Rant
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tadhockey</b></div><div>It is unbelievably ridiculous to me that a player like Paul Martin can pass through waivers cleanly in the modern NHL. Yes, I am perfectly aware that he has a $4.875mil contract, which doesn't expire until the end of next season. Yes, I fully understand that he is 36. And yes, I understand that he has been out with an injury all year, and that he was unable to make the Sharks' lineup after returning to it.

Those things all are entirely irrelevant.</div></div>

I'm sorry, but those are not irrelevant factors when it comes to claiming a player on waivers. The fact of the matter is that he played two games, got injured, sat for two months, came back and played in one game, got hurt again, and has lost his spot to a defense core that includes Dylan DeMelo, Joakim Ryan, and Tim Heed. If he can get supplanted by those guys, then he obviously isn't the player that he used to be. He didn't even play on the PK at all in those three games he played. When you're an older defenseman, you're probably going to be expected to bring something that younger players can't, such as special teams play.

Like you said, he is 36 and will be overpaid for the next two seasons. That's not a risk many GMs want to take, especially when they have invested time into their own young defensemen. The older a player gets, the steeper their decline becomes. Martin is 36, so we're beginning to see his decline.

And FYI, the Leafs intentionally let Pickard slip through waivers and then traded for him so they could send him straight to the AHL, rather than risk the potential waiver claim.
Forum: NHLDec. 22, 2016 at 11:19 a.m.
Thread: 2 NMC Goaltenders
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>F50marco</b></div><div><i><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stormm_29</b></div><div><i>If a team has 2 goalies with NMC's and neither will waive it, the team is then required to protect both in expansion, but you can only protect one. Is there a rule regarding 2 NMC goalies i have not heard about?</i></div></div>

I thought about this as well. What about if a team had a lot of NMC's not enough to protect all of them?

I have a feeling there are some rules that haven't been made yet but will be hashed out during the year as scenarios like this come up.</i></div></div>

Teams are forced to protect players with NMC. They cannot be taken in the expansion draft because it would be a breach of contract.
If a team violates the rules of the expansion draft (protects too many players, for example) there would be some kind of penalty; though we don't yet know what that would be. I'd expect they'd lose entry draft pick(s) to Vegas and/or Vegas would be able to take more than one player from that team in the expansion draft.