Excellent points all around.

Building on that, I wonder what kind of “penalty” there would be for failing to report. I assume the new team would simply suspend the player, as they would any other time someone failed to report. Because, as I understand, he will become property of whoever claims him no matter what. He becomes their “problem,” so to speak.

Great thought, dude.

He has the ultimate say- if he doesn’t want to play with the team who claims him, he just refuses to report. I can’t believe he’s hurting for money badly enough that he’d go to Lon Gisland (hey, it’s they way they day it there, go figure), particularly if he’s not the guaranteed starter for the three games it takes for Rickie DiPietro to get hurt again. See also Ottawa, Leclaire.

For that matter, I think anyone willingly going to any of the top six potential claimants on the full list oughtta have their head examined, but they’re goalies, and I’ve yet to meet one who wasn’t at least a little fucked in the head.

All I know is my roomate, a Sens fan, is ordering his Nabokov jersey as we speak.

ok well per @Ledger_NJDevils, apparently they won’t put in a claim. I’ll go STFU now…

Nabokov has absolutely no say in who claims him. The Oilers, Islanders, and Jackets probably know they couldn’t sign a player like that on their own merits and might take advantage of the opportunity to acquire him — and at an insanely low number at that.

Watch Kenny Holland come up with some way to put a poison pill in the contract which says that Nabokov gets a particular additional amount of money unless he dresses for n games in Detroit.

Because I don’t know how long Leclaire is expected to be out and — as of right now — he’s not on LTIR. If he isn’t placed on LTIR, they don’t enough cap space even to pick up Nabokov’s cheap 570k deal.

Also, Damien Rhodes reference FTW.

The owner is delusional and thinks the team, as is, can win. Their goalie situation is the absolute worst its been since the days of Damien Rhodes and Ron Tugnutt (hehe), and they just seem like they’d do it because it’s “the missing piece”.