NHL to talk to teams about tampering (the GMs)

[The Waffler]

Ottawas going to lose another 1st round pick over this

 

[coolboarder]

The biggest culprit is the player's agents because they are able to get in touch with any GM at anytime and telling that team that a player is interested in joining that team after the offseason during an extension negotiation. The agents get in touch with player on a daily basis for anything, even during season.

It is far easier for GM to get away with it when they telling their agents that they are interested in acquiring that type of player and their agents will use that as a leverage to raise the salary. The agent is using the strategy to hold back the agreement during extension negotiation by getting some pulse to see if a certain team is interested in his service for next season by casual conversation during a certain negotiation of other players team. He would advise him upon that knowledge to holdout their negotiation until the free agent window is open to see how much a team is willing to bid for his service. That is why you often see players signing just before the free agency period is open if his own team is the only bidder or the highest bidder.

GM cannot really talk to players directly but can talk to their agents directly because some player on his team is also agent of a player from other team. If a GM is buddy-buddy with a few agents and could easily collect some info and plan their strategy for off-season signing. So therefore the agent is the biggest culprit of tampering in the league. This is difficult to prove that tampering is happening indirectly.

 

[the valiant effort]

Such rules make sense in a world when richer organizations can access faster messenger pigeons. Clinging to kayfabe in the 21st century.

 

[zar]

OK, what did a Canadian franchise do now?

 

[JPT]

There’s also the fact that agents work with several players causing them to be in contact with management from several teams …

It’s not like Team A is calling Player X out of the blue. Team A talks with Player X’s agent as a normal course of business because the team has negotiating rights to another of that agent’s players… and that conversation obviously exposes what the team’s needs and spending plans are, and the agent’s job is to find his clients opportunities…

I say we do away with owners and agents

 

[kingsholygrail]

Probably a couple owners made a stink about it to the other owners so they're addressing it.

 

[Devil Dancer]

Need to talk to the refs about what the hell is goalie interference in 2024.

No one knows!

 

[JAK]

What's probably going to happen is a few smart GMs will still tamper, sign the contract asap, but have an understanding with the player and agent that they will delay announcement and filing with the league later in the day to please the league.

 

[John Mandalorian]

Is the league going to go at bottom feeder teams for colluding during the trade deadline?

 

[Apex Predator]

How does the NHL compare to other sports leagues? Is this the same everywhere?

The NFL you know ahead of time where everyone is signing. They are given time before free agency to talk. Kind of like what the NHL use to do.

 

[1989]

As I alluded to earlier, I don't know how much extracurricular interference is run by the agents in these circumstances, but whatever happens...

just blacklist Allan Walsh.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Good luck with that one.

 

[ToDavid]

The whole world would have moved on from the Tkachuk rumour in like an hour had the Sens not cried about it all week.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

does any team's normal every day operations get the league as perturbed as the Rongos?

 

[Golden_Jet]

does any team's normal every day operations get the league as perturbed as the Rongos?

Well they do have Dolan.

 

[vaspa]

Better be careful what kind of threads you start in the Trade Rumours forum guys, you might get an angry phonecall from Bettman.

 

[JiricekSaveUs]

It’s almost impossible to prove tampering. GMs are smart enough to not leave a paper trail. They can be getting dinner with an agent to talk about player A, and then subtly ask about player B. Even more discretely, they can talk about the type of player they’re looking for without even naming the player, but they both know who they’re talking about.

 

[SEALBound]

I would be okay if there was something in place that put more scrutiny on an organization that "leaks" desires to the media as a means to get around direct communication tampering.

For example:
NYR: "Man, we really want Brady but we can't talk to him. I know, we'll tell Freidman we are "interested" in him, in theory of course, and he'll report on it and they will see it!"

You don't want that to cause discourse between a player and his current team.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

 

[AfroThunder396]

It seems like the NHL is just upset that their silly little "Free Agent Frenzy" holiday isn't as popular as it used to be.

 

[Leafs87]

1 million will be the new cost of early communication. Hardly a fine if you land a big fish

If you set this, I think it’ll actually encourage tampering as you know what fine to expect. Right now you have no idea, could be a 1st round pick.

 

[Bubbles]

Andlauer is definitely new to hockey. Larry Brooks has been making up stuff for years. Yes, he has legitimate sources and is an insider, but tosses out bogus stuff all the time.

 

[NJ DevLolz]

Trying to figure out the next way the rangers will embarrass themselves this week

 

[Wayward Son]

It’s almost impossible to prove tampering. GMs are smart enough to not leave a paper trail. They can be getting dinner with an agent to talk about player A, and then subtly ask about player B. Even more discretely, they can talk about the type of player they’re looking for without even naming the player, but they both know who they’re talking about.

This is generally true... unless your GM is actually dumb enough to tell the media directly