Quoting: MatthewsFan
How often can you update the trade list?
Like lets say its a guy who signed his NTC (creates it) then gets traded like 3-4-5 years later. There is a good chance some teams off the list might be bad now, or teams on the list at the team are good now, can you update the list every year?
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Or is once the NTC trade list created, that's it, no changes?
Quoting: A_Habs_fan
I think you have to submit your list every year around July 1st ( so when the next year of the contract kicks in )
I believe the only relevant CBA restriction, is that you can't have such clauses active outside of regular UFA eligible years.
Meaning you can't have them until you hit free agency or they can kick in partway through a contract that extends beyond the end of your RFA qualification.
The clauses themselves are not included in a contract or restricted to certain standards and are negotiated separately.
I'd imagine that would include the timelines for submission and ability to alter those lists.
A team might require the list to be submitted prior to the draft for example, or not require it at all until they request it (48 hours notice for example).
A player might want to submit it in the off season and not have to worry about it, or they might simply want you to ask for it only if you are listening to offers.
The general idea is that the player wants to be included in the decision and the team doesn't want to be handcuffed, so the clause itself only "needs" to be invoked when there's an impasse between player and team.
If you are working with the player, you can present them with options and/or request that they waive. If you aren't working with the player, you are stuck with the options they gave you.
(This is to my understanding of course. A lot of technicalities with the inner workings of the NHL aren't publically available. The only update in aware of is the MOU which fixed the issue of teams being able to trade for a player and choose whether to honor their clause. Now the clauses remain regardless of player movement, and can be waived for a single transaction only.)