If you want to go down that rabbit hole, you go right ahead, but I don't see that as "proof" quite the way you've parroted it in this thread over and over.
There's this thing called relationships, business and otherwise, that matter, even though you've said you don't care at all about any of that stuff.
Its just more mickey mouse bs from a mickey mouse organization, which is the M.O. of the Ottawa Senators under Melnyk.
Like I said, could this one instance be justifiable? Possibly, but the list of disputes with Melnyk as the only consistent variable is way too long to ignore the precedent set. Feels like there's been back and forth's on 40 or 50 different Melnyk disputes at this point and somehow none of them were ever his fault. He has an amazing ability to invite conflict while also being a saint himself.