The Chicago Blackhawks have placed veteran forward Corey Perry on waivers for the purposes of contract termination. He was 16 games into his first year with the club, scoring four goals and nine points. Perry was previously announced as being away from the team for the “foreseeable future”.
Perry has been missing from team activities since the Wednesday before American Thanksgiving after he was a surprising healthy-scratch as the result of an “organizational decision”. He missed the team’s proceeding Thursday practice and the team shared that they’ve decided Perry should take time away soon after.
Perry joined the Hawks via trade in June, with Chicago sending a seventh-round pick to the Tampa Bay Lightning for the veteran. Chicago then inked Perry to a one-year, $4MM contract extension that set him up for a prominent role with the 2023-24 Blackhawks lineup. Chicago even rewarded Perry with an alternate captain role. He served as one of four alternate captains for the Hawks, who have yet to name a successor to the captaincy that Jonathan Toews held since 2008.
Perry, 38, is nearing the end of an electric hockey career that saw him win the Stanley Cup and win Gold at the World Cup, World Juniors, Hlinka Gretzky Cup, World Championship, twice at the Olympics, and plenty more. He’s one of only a handful of hockey players in the coveted Triple Gold club, which comprises players who have won Gold at the Olympics and World Championship, and won a Stanley Cup. Perry’s dazzling career has amounted to 1,273 NHL games and 892 career points. He added 124 points in 196 career playoff games.
It is unknown whether Perry’s contract termination is mutual, although the Blackhawks have claimed that Perry violated his standard player contract, which would provide grounds for termination even if Perry does not agree.
See you at the pool Conner
How’s that for leadership?
Statement from the Chicago Blackhawks organization:
After an internal investigation, the Chicago Blackhawks have determined that Corey Perry has engaged in conduct that is unacceptable, and in violation both of the terms of his Standard Player’s Contract and the Blackhawks’ internal policies intended to promote professional and safe work environments. As such, Corey Perry has been placed on unconditional waivers. In the event Mr. Perry clears waivers, we intend to terminate his contract effective immediately.
So did he sleep with Bedards mom??
Well if that rumor is true, it appears it was at least consensual. Which is better than the typical Blackhawks scandal, i guess.
The rumor is “100% false” according to Charlie Roumeliotis of NBCS Chicago.
Even if it was true, it’s hard to imagine it being grounds for contract termination.
Previous contract terminations like that of Mike Richards (oxycodone at the CAN/US border) and Alex Galchenyuk (misdemeanor threatening) involved the law. I have no idea what Perry did but it has to be more serious than what two consenting adults might get up to.
Unless Bedard complained
Kidna weird that the Blackhawks found wrongdoing before anyone else did. Then again, can’t blame the current FO for notwithstanding wanting more egg on their faces.
It must have been something pretty egregious, because a certain Bruins player beat up his wife and is still on their roster.
Which… Kinda says a lot about the Bruins organization, honestly.
Well, if it was pretty egregious doesn’t it also follow that it would have been more obvious to EVERYONE? It’s been nearly a week since the initial benching.
Lucic is in the player assistance program so he can’t be released
Boston as a city in general tbh
Kid, we all get it and have heard it all before from you… You’re clearly butt hurt about Boston beating your favorite half dozen teams due to the fact you can’t just pick ONE team to root for. #PyramidHeadCase
@nsco1996 Yeah, that’s NOT an offensive comment in the slightest. Why is THIS comment STILL on this comment board? Guess we can’t all be as “classy” as Nova Scotia and the FAST PACED life up there, eh? BTW, where is Marchand from? LOL. Safe to say Brad he sure WISHES he wasn’t though. Ouch kid, check mate….. ;)
Never in history has a gf retracted a statement about abuse from a abuser right? Keeping his wife from leaving the apartment is bad enough, believe that is called entrapment
@darkside Good call and seems logical. Sketchy organizations remain…. sketchy…. ;)
What has Boston done other than choke in the playoffs every year? they havent beaten any of my “favorite teams” or even seen them, Im not even a fan of a team in the Eastern Conference bud or Canadian for that matter, kid you sound as stupid as you probably look with a Wife Beater on and one of those stupid clover tattoos, you probably have trouble pronouncing words properly like everyone else with a Boston accent struggles with
So in other words, due to ineptitude in his little salty rant, nova”butthurt”scotia1996 is mad at Boston for beating his “favorite teams” in the playoffs. Waaaaaaah……
bojubi No one is condoning his actions/behavior over here. Just posting the truth of the situation while looking for further FACTS/EVIDENCE to be reported which is what people who think logically will wait to hear about.
Bedard won’t miss him for long, Christmas is a few weeks away.
Perry going out on a high note!
going out the blackhawk way
I think this was consensual though. He was showing them how to do it legally.
Good! And after contract termination he can become a Wing for less than $1M! He has probably been in more SCF’s than anyone in recent years!
Yup sign him up Stevie Y.
Detroit seems awfully thirsty for Chicago’s leftovers.
Not as thirsty as Melanie
Sounds like Perry got sauced up in Columbus and did “something” with a person in the organization.
Well we know as much now as we did before-nothing. he wasn’t arrested so I guess it wasn’t illegal anyway. Good to know the Hawks are enforcing workplace standards and enforcing them anyway. It’s obvious that they aren’t going to put up with nonsense and are willing to walk away from a useful player and possibly 4 million bucks because you know the Players union is going to put up a fuss about getting some if not all of his money. Danny Wirtz and Davidson setting a tone. They have too many young guys both here and coming to put up with crap. Well done!
Now if we could purge the sex pests from the league entirely, that would be cool.
@unclegacy1526 No more comments to randomly throw around about “dirty” Charlie McAvoy, huh? After all the touchy feely grab ass scandals and organizational weirdness of your blowhawks, you might want to start concentrating on THEM for a change of pace. You did have scumbag andrew shaw too for years, right? Enjoy casting stones? HA HA.
Bro are you okay? Who hurt you?
True that about Chicawwgo “enforcing workplace standards” as they’ve history been “really good” about walking away from contracts and money on the ledger. See Marian Hossa and conveniently cheating out of his contract due to a “skin condition” from the uniforms for proof of that, lmao. What a JOKE. At least they rigged the draft for Bedard, lol. Gotta keep them with at least ONE #1 draft pick.
@phc
He seems rather salty, who pissed in his cornflakes geez
@PyramidHeadCase Not your “bro” skippy. Did you get around to picking a team yet? Jackets, Cats, Wings, Coyotes, all the various Canadian franchises… All still your favorites? What’s the count at now? Keep your asinine comments coming though, for sure. We love to laugh at them. ;)