In Elliotte Friedman’s 30 Thoughts post, he had a tidbit on, potentially, why Valterri Filppula didn’t want to come to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
19. Toronto was not on Filppula’s list of approved teams to be moved to. He could block 13. So Tampa would have needed extra permission to send him there. Veterans see Colin Greening, Brooks Laich and Milan Michalek in the AHL, so they believe it could happen to them too. Going into the last year of his contract, Filppula had to be aware of that.
This is nonsense.