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Recovering Future Considerations Truther
- Feb 23, 2014
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Ferland's Agent to every NHL team : "How much would you pay a player not named Micheal Ferland, but who played very, very similar to Micheal Ferland? And how much term would come with that deal?" Asking for a friend....
It goes exactly like that.
Violation of tampering by-law in the NHL!?
"How smart people tamper"
Friedman went on to explain that players and agents were in the middle of tampering situations, with specifics examples. GMs across the NHL are getting the hang of this:
“I had one agent flat-out tell me one time he had a conversation six months before his player got to free agency and said, ‘I’m not doing my job if I don’t test the market,’ “ said Friedman. “So he calls up a GM he thinks he’ll be interested in him and… they never mention names. ‘Will you be looking for a left-shot D next year?’
“‘Yeah. I’m looking for someone about 28 years old. Left-shot D. Maybe has a pedigree from the Western Hockey League.’
“So basically they’re doing everything except mentioning the name. And that’s kind of the way things go.”