If you are wondering why Vadim Shipachyov still hasn’t been placed on unconditional waivers for contract termination purposes by the Vegas Golden Knights, let’s try to answer that question.
Where to begin?
The NHL and NHL Players’ Association have been going back and forth on it this week to find a resolution and are still in the process of trying to find resolution on it. More on that later.
First, the player: he simply wants to resume his career at home in Russia and put all this negative experience in North America behind him (agent Petr Svoboda said his client had flown home to Russia on Thursday.