Pro Hockey Rumors’ Josh Erickson examined PuckPedia’s database of NHL players in order to compile a list of each and every team’s NHL players who have no-move, no-trade and modified no-trade clauses, and the Red Wings, as it turns out, are quite average in that department.
First, a reminder from Erickson:
Trade protection comes in three forms: no-movement clauses (NMCs), no-trade clauses (NTCs), and modified no-trade clauses (M-NTCs). No-movement clauses are blanket protection save for buyouts, so the player is also protected against a waiver placement and subsequent AHL assignment unless they approve it.
No-trade clauses limit a team from trading a player to any other club without their approval, but if they’re trying to send a player somewhere where he won’t approve a deal, the team can still waive the player and have the team in question claim them.
Modified no-trade clauses do not prevent all trades. Players can submit a trade list with a preset number of teams, which is either in the form of a no-trade list or an approved trade list. The former is far more common. If a player has an approved trade list, the number of teams they can be traded to is asterisked. If there is no asterisk, the number of teams they can block a trade to is shown next to their name in parentheses.
So here are the Red Wings players with some sort of no-trade protection:
Detroit Red Wings
NMCs: none
NTCs: Patrick Kane, Dylan Larkin
M-NTCs: Ben Chiarot (10), J.T. Compher (10), Andrew Copp (10), Alex DeBrincat (16), John Gibson (10), Justin Holl (10)
Continued; as we all know by now, the Wings were probably too generous with Chiarot, Compher, Copp and Holl’s modified no-trade clauses, but overall, having eight players with some sort of no-trade protection is average for an NHL roster.
