Absolutely. These days, “future considerations” is a euphemism for “nothing”. Because, on paper, a team cannot simply give a player to another team. Against a theoretical compensation that will never happen, it is prettier, apparently. However, it has not always been so. For example, in 1999, the Calgary Flames traded Theoren Fleury and Chris Dingman to the Colorado Avalanche for Wade Belak, Rene Corbet and “future considerations”. Those eventually came in the form of defenseman Robyn Regehr, who spent more than 10 years in Calgary, playing 826 games there. Fleury’s stint in Denver only lasted a few weeks.

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We often hear that the NHL is the best league in the world, and it’s not just a cliché. A Canadian league could not help but become a circuit inferior to an 100% American NHL, which would retain the best players, the richest owners, the most prestigious sponsors… So no, that could not happen. Unless you want a hockey version of the CFL…

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The right to a daily allowance is written in black and white in the collective agreement. When it was signed in 2013, it was therefore decreed that players were entitled to an allowance of US$100 per day on the road, an amount to be indexed annually to the US Consumer Price Index. . According to an article by The Athletic, in 2018-19 the per diem was US$110. The collective agreement also provides that the allowance is reduced by half on days when the team provides meals to the players.

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Only he knows the answer, but the fact that he participated in Lightning alumni events after his retirement and the fact that the Lightning retired his jersey suggests that relations were cordial. For what it’s worth, Lecavalier will be paid by Tampa until 2027, the date until which the buyout of his contract, carried out in 2013, is staggered.

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I will first answer that for several decades, Quebecers have now been in competition with the rest of the world. Even Americans were rarer in the NHL in the 1970s and 1980s. Take the 1988 vintage for example. Six Quebecers were drafted in the first round, but only two Americans, Jeremy Roenick and a certain Jason Muzzatti, and only one European, Teemu Selanne. In 2023, eight American players or players from American institutions were chosen in the first round and fourteen Europeans. There were only five from Ontario, even though it is considered the birthplace of Canadian hockey. Otherwise for QMJHL players, there were two in the first round in 2022, four the previous year and five in 2020, including Alexis Lafrenière in first place.