NHL to talk to teams about tampering (the GMs)
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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.
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.
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Such rules make sense in a world when richer organizations can access faster messenger pigeons. Clinging to kayfabe in the 21st century.
