Gagne says on French TV that he hasn't waived his no-trade clause

Sa Clause de Non-Echange is a beautiful way of referring to Hartnell’s contract.

so again we are left clueless as to what Homer’s masterplan is

The interview was done July 7.

This is the translation from a Bill Meltzer thread:

Gagné says he still has a NTC and hasn’t lifted it. He knows the Flyers have problems getting under the cap and he may be targeted as he will play his last contract year. He ended saying the next days will determine what will happen.

(Sorry, you started this thread after I was already constructing this; I’m pointing that post to this thread).

Homer to Gagne: Simon, I don’t really plan on doing this, but considering our cap position and all the guys you know on that team’s management, would you ever consider waiving your NMC to go to the Kings?

Simon: Homer, ees deeficult. But sure, I would consider.

Homer: Thanks. (Goes into meeting with all Flyers office employees).

Homer: Well, I just talked to Gagne. I’m nervous about the cap, but Simon says he might waive his NMC if we needed him to.

(Alternate universe conspiracy theorist version: Homer goes into meeting, calls aside an intern and orders the intern to do the following).

After meeting, intern calls reporter: Yo, Tim, Simon has agreed to waive his NMC.
Reporter tweets: It’s official, Flyers brass say Gagne has waived his NMC.

BSH reaction: Angst, sturm, drang, suicidal thoughts mixed in with capgeek

RDS calls Simon and asks if NMC is waived, Simon says: NON!

Reporter tweets (misinterpreting "non" in French for "non" in English): Gagne never had NMC

Press conference where Carter trade is announced, Homer answers question whether trade rumor about Gagne was ever true: I have no idea how that started, such a thing never started with someone in the Flyers office

(Alternate universe conspiracy theorist version, Homer crosses fingers behind self as he says the previous sentence, and thinks: Of course it didn’t start with anyone here, I fired that intern last week).

you know what the sad part of this article is? the lack of Simon’s playoff beard. Man that thing was awesome

http://www.puckupdate.com/2010/07/08/nikolai-zherdev-would-be-an-uneccessary-risk-for-flyers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+puckupdate+%28PuckUpdate%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Article about Zherdev and the Flyers. Won’t make you happy to see him in Orange and Black.

Update time via Pierre Lebrun:
" But Gagne hinted that because of Flyers’ cap issues, he may still be on the way out at some point 44 minutes ago via web

" In other Flyers news, Simon Gagne on French sports network RDS told media that he has, in fact, NOT waived his no-trade clause… about 1 hour ago via web

“Once paperwork is finalized either today or tomorrow, Zherdev will sign a one-year deal with the Flyers about 1 hour ago via web

“Holdup on Zherdev deal in Philly we’re told is that paperwork still being processed as NHL rubber-stamps player transfer from KHL… "

So we have a term one-year and rumored cost less than $3 million

From the sounds of things, the Kings aren’t willing to give up either of their young goalies. Why not give Theodore a try for a season? He had great stats last year, and got pulled from the playoffs unfairly early in my opinion. He had nobody playing defense in front of him. I think he’d really excel with our top 6 in front of him and I’d rather have him than Turco. Plus, he’d probably come cheap.

turco will come just as cheap, he has no other options

2010-11 Philadelphia Flyers
PLAYER BONUS CAP HIT
FORWARDS
Daniel Briere — $6,500,000
Mike Richards — $5,750,000
Jeff Carter — $5,000,000
Scott Hartnell — $4,200,000

• Nikalai Zherdev — $3,000,000
  James Van Riemsdyk ($637,500) $1,654,167
• Daniel Carcillo — $1,200,000
  Ian Laperriere — $1,166,667
  Jody Shelley — $1,100,000
  Claude Giroux — $821,667
  Ville Leino — $800,000
• Darroll Powe — $700,000
  Blair Betts — $700,000
  Riley Cote — $550,000
  DEFENSEMEN
  Kimmo Timonen — $6,333,333
  Chris Pronger — $4,921,429
  Andrej Meszaros — $4,000,000
  Matt Carle — $3,437,500
  Braydon Coburn — $3,200,000
  Sean O’Donnell ($300,000) $1,300,000
  Oskars Bartulis — $600,000
  GOALTENDERS
  Michael Leighton — $1,550,000
• Marty Turco — $1,500,000

CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS
ROSTER SIZE 23
SALARY CAP $59,400,000
PAYROLL $59,984,762
BONUSES $937,500
CAP SPACE $352,738

In this scenario I have flyers waiving Boosh & Cote, trading Gagne, giving Carcillo 1.2 million, Zherdev $3, Turco/Theodore 1.5 million, and Powe 700k. close to the cap but under

Sounds like a Gags trade could be imminent (well, relatively anyways) – Darren Dreger just tweeted that Flyers may be waiting on announcing Zherdev signing until Gags is moved – guess it depends on how much money Zherdev would make and whether that would put them over the 10% overage on the cap – hope that they don’t completely undersell Gags (a la Roenick when everyone knew they needed to get under the cap)

How long can the flyers carry the extra 10% on the cap for?

not that I believe any of this crap but here’s what eklund has heard rumorwise about the flyers:
“* All this while a few rumors are surfacing that Kovalchuk may indeed take a one year deal in Detroit or Philly.

• If no Kovalchuk, the Flyers do indeed appear very close to signing Nik Zherdev. It is an interesting choice on quite a few levels. Do the Flyers need another young, skilled forward? Especially one who has a track record of not being a good team guy? And is this player really why they asked Gagne to waive his NTC? Today there are reports Gagne may not waive his NTC. I would expect Simon to only agree to go to a few places. The Flyers asking an icon to waive his NTC to take a chance on Zherdev….not so sure how you Flyers fans feel about this… It’s one thing if you are bringing in a proven Bobby Ryan or a Vezina winning goalie in Tim Thomas. There must be more to this story…I will reserve judgement…
• Don’t count Jose Theodore out of the running for Philadelphia.
• I still feel strongly that Paul Kariya is destined to be a Penguin, while I can see Billy Guerin going to NJ or Philadelphia. Yes Philadelphia…"

So according to Eklund Flyers wanted Kovie to pull a Hossa, are after Theodore, and might go for Guerin

The #Flyers today disagreed with a Quebec TV station that said Gagne did not agree to waive no-trade clause.

What, did the Flyers send out a press release, Carchidi? It was an interview with the man himself, not just some report. How hard is it to figure that out?

Gagne for Jon Quick is the current rumor. Also heard simon gagne for kaberle…staying on this.

HAHA. HAHAHA.

via sbaicker "@BroadStBull is it possible this whole “did he/didn’t he” waive mess is purely an issue of semantics? "
finally some sense on twitter

Scott Hartnell will take on Serena Williams in a charity tennis match at Villanova July 13.

I cannot even imagine what that will look like.

When I get out of class, I’ll take a listen at the video and see if I can decipher it. I’ve learned French from some Quebecois, though that was years ago, so the accent is somewhat familiar.

I apologize for not understanding this but maybe someone can help?
If the Flyers place Gagne on waivers, does that mean they get cap relief for his salary?
I think I read somewhere that being on waivers lasts two days and after that that your team can send you down to the minors. Is that right?
This seems so nuts to me and so unfair.
What is the advantage here? What am I missing?

I was glad earlier today hearing about Gagne’s interview because I figured that at least if he did wind up waiving his NTC it would be on his terms to a place he wanted to go to. But this is just such an insult.

I was reading up on Bill Guerin, because I heard him mentioned in connection with something and WIkipedia says: “After much vocal encouragement for his return from the crowd and teammates at Pittsburgh’s Stanley Cup parade on June 15, as well as expressing his own affection for the city and team, Guerin signed a one-year contract extension with the Penguins on June 29 at a greatly reduced salary, to play through the 2009–10 season.”

Now that would be a great next year for us, wouldn’t it? A cup with honor.

I didn’t mean we should trade for Guerin. I meant that if we DIDN’T wind up trading or waiving Gagne AND we won the Stanley Cup next year with Gagne, -wouldn’t that be a great end of the story - and a Cup with honor. I would love to see him cheered and offered another year extension.

Thanks to you both for answering. I never thought I’d be hoping for a team to trade for him — but I’d rather that, than for him to be placed on waivers, or sent to the AHL.

Sources tell Carchidi that LeBron will annouce that he will be playing for the Flyers next year.

For LA. RT @doug_panzer: @tpanotch’s report said (gagne) AGREED to waive. Semantics!

So Gagne agreed to waive for LA, but he hasn’t been approached (or won’t agree to waive) for anyone else.