League News: NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) | 2024-25 Summer Edition

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Maybe they just haven’t announced it yet? because I’m pretty sure I saw Hathaway call someone a Posse in the flyers Utah game last night.
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Somewhat fascinating (to me) thing from 32 Thoughts today, that I'd never considered.. When third teams are brought into a deal to facilitate (retain some money), they aren't (always? usually?) privy to knowing just who they're retaining on or bigger parameters of the deal.

Nothing Caps related in the post.

19. The NBA’s Utah Jazz were the middleman in the massive Doncic deal. ESPN’s Tim MacMahon reported that Jazz president Danny Ainge didn’t know Doncic nor Anthony Davis were involved “until about an hour before it was completed … But by then it was too late to do much about it.”

Kind of funny it happened a week after the Blackhawks were criticized for not getting more out of eating part of Rantanen’s salary. I asked around about this: should the Blackhawks have changed their minds, or asked for more? “How do you feel about breaking your word?” was the general response.

One thing everyone understood: GM Kyle Davidson wasn’t told specifics because Colorado demanded secrecy from Carolina. A couple executives said that, in this situation, you know what you’re being asked to retain, so you’re guessing who it could be. And, they bet Davidson was given a higher number than actually needed, to make it harder to guess who it was. Apparently, that’s a regular tactic.
 

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