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Vermette Arbitration
Monday July 07, 2008 @ 12:17 PM EDT
Ottawa Senator Antoine Vermette has filed for salary arbitration. As far as my understanding goes (which is not very far), Vermz cannot sign an offer sheet from another team. He is looking for a fair price from the Sens so this is a sign that he wants to stay here, hopefully. He is legible for salary arbitration because he is over 25 and has more than 1 year (which translates into 10 NHL games) of experience. Just to help make things a little clearer, an 18-20 year old player would need 5 years (or 50 games?) experience to be legible.
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ANYWAY, the bad news is that Vermette can still be traded. And if the parties in decision making do not come to an aggreement and sign Vermette to a long term contract (which I believe is still possible) then he gets either a one year or a two year contract and after that contract ends, Vermette becomes an Unrestricted Free Agent. I’m still more optimistic about this than I am pessimistic because the same thing happened to Chris Kelly last year and look at him a year later: 2.3 million for 4 years??
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Mezsaros is apperently in a different RFA group so he cannot do what Vermette it doing. I have no idea what is going on with Meszaors’ situation.
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If you have any knowledge related to this type of matter, please feel free to tell me bout it. I am still learning 
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Kinoko
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3 Comments - 3 Replies
claudel
Jul 07 2008 20:01
lol
Hes hot….
But never mind that, really good blog you really make us bloggers think with this blog, thanks.
BluelinerSimon
Jul 07 2008 14:21
very
difficult situation! vermette played a great season but is only in the shaddow of the “big three” he could play a number 1 center! so don’t wonder if he goas but let’s cheer when he stays
MetalheadHo...
Jul 07 2008 12:32
Meszaros
was almost invisible on the Ottawa blueline last year, he did a bit offensively but was one of the worst offenders when the Sens went on a slide. He is apparently asking for 4million which is fair value for his previous seasons work, word on Vermette is he is playing a negotiating game.