News & Notes XLIV: Revenge of the Seth

[hblueridgegal]

3 years! Gotta wear shades..

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Best decision was allowing Brindamour to coach, despite his lack of experience.

Worst decision? Letting Forslund walk. Raising parking prices to absurd levels. Possibly interfering with the negotiation process many, many times over.

Has that potential interference really been an issue anywhere outside of Guentzel and Rod? Obviously the Rod one would have been a catastrophic mistake and worthy of it's own "worse decision" title but what other negotiations has he potentially step on?

 

[cptjeff]

Would if I could. That's a damn good question.

I can only guess that it would make a lot of sense that the real pay probably isn't allow to differ from how it is for the salary cap purposes, so that if you're in AHL for a day for the salary cap, you also wouldn't get NHL salary for that day either. BUT. The salary cap get gamed that way and it would get gamed even if the players took the hit for it, so I'm just as prepared to believe that NHLPA would have gotten some silent concession that the player gets paid the NHL salary anyway if the transfer is merely a paper transfer.

I *think* it's kind of telling that you never hear a player whine about getting stolen some salary by team's shenanigans.

I would be shocked if that happens- the NHL has got to have some mechanism to audit teams books for cap compliance, and that's 100% a violation of the CBA.

I think players don't whine because they're young players happy to be in the NHL and not looking to make waves or piss of their teams. Plus, the money is already an ungodly large amount to them.

But I would like to see the next CBA go by game rather than by day to stop these shenanigans.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Has that potential interference really been an issue anywhere outside of Guentzel and Rod? Obviously the Rod one would have been a catastrophic mistake and worthy of it's own "worse decision" title but what other negotiations has he potentially step on?

Confirmed or rumored? Because even guys that have signed with us, their agents have talked about Dundon's negotiation process. He's involved. To what degree is anyone's guess.

But I mostly included it because of the potential loss of RBA.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Best decision was allowing Brindamour to coach, despite his lack of experience.

Worst decision? Letting Forslund walk. Raising parking prices to absurd levels. Possibly interfering with the negotiation process many, many times over.

Same answer here, with Rod and Forslund.

 

[DaveG]

Has that potential interference really been an issue anywhere outside of Guentzel and Rod? Obviously the Rod one would have been a catastrophic mistake and worthy of it's own "worse decision" title but what other negotiations has he potentially step on?

Hamilton and arguably Pesce as well. I can't speak to any of the big ticket UFAs other than Guentzel because typically they've been of an age where we haven't and wouldn't be in on them (ie: Stamkos), most of the guys that we've gone after have been via trade a year or two before they would have been set to go to UFA outside of Eichel.