The Sharks cannot get rid of Kane's contract and here's why
Johnston said yesterday on TSN's Insider Trading that the Sharks can't terminate Kane's contract due to his suspension. Even if the league had suspended Kane for suspected gambling and sexual assault, the team could have terminated his contract. The league's Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) does not currently address situations when a player falsifies a vaccination record.
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One option they don't have is the possibility of terminating what's remaining on Evander Kane's contract. Two sources confirm that the CBA won't allow for that to happen once Evander has cleared the suspension. Essentially, it's because the punishment he received here, the 21 games for the COVID-19 protocol violation, is the punishment and so it puts San Jose in a bit of a tough spot. I don't get the sense, at all, that they've decided how they'll proceed going forward here. Perhaps at some point he's waived and sent to the AHL, maybe they try to pay him to stay home, I think a trade will be pretty difficult at this point in time, but certainly they can't terminate that contract.
- Chris Johnston, TSN
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