That press conference video was interesting from the perspective of how blatant the tampering is becoming. It is so pervasive it sure seems like that is not ever going to be addressed….. he freely admits on camera to the press that he had multiple offers a week ago and was planning to go elsewhere….
I don’t know…. Maybe it’s my negative bias…. But for players we want to keep and losing them, something about it makes me think if there was a team or owner that would complain about it, it might be ours…. We do right by players from the perspective that we do give permission to pending UFA to get the best options for them. So I expect many likely all they would have to do would be have the agents ask for permission…. But the way Martinook said it, not sure he had official permission so much as his agent just flat out had gotten all the offers worked out ahead of time and Martinook left money on the table because he wanted to stay here…..
So basically the whole plan got torn up when Guentzel decided to move on. It would appear the team wasn’t budgeting for being able to afford Martinook if Guentzel stayed with their total set of plans for signings, trades etc…. So for certain fans of the team that are also big Marty fans, maybe it’s a good thing Guentzel did what he did and is gone as the offer from the canes only came in within the last day or two right at the start of free agent frenzy……they wouldnt have Marty to cheer for without things working out how they did…..
Find the positive, right?