NHL to talk to teams about tampering (the GMs)

[Bileur]

It was reported Andlauer voiced his concern to the media after they said the NHL said they found no wrongdoing. The NHL only told the public they found no wrongdoing after Andlauer went to the media, but the investigation happened prior to any of that.

He went to the league initially, they said they found no evidence of wrongdoing after interviewing and meeting with the Rangers. He then did a sit down interview with the media (The Athletic) expressing his concern, after already being told by the league it was fine. That was the crying part. He didn’t get his way so he started sulking to the media hoping to put pressure on the league.

You’ve been framing it this way but that’s not my understanding of the situation.

From the reporting, Andlauer sits down with Lebrun. Lebrun discusses what Andlauer complained about on that’s hockey on December 9th. At that point, according to Lebrun, Andlauer still hadn’t talked to the league about it.

Rangers then respond to the Andlauer public statement through Seravalli, still on December 9th:

At this point, it doesn’t seem the NHL has made a ruling or taken a position. You would think that if it had, the Rangers would have mentioned it in their statement.

The next day, on December 10th, Friedman reports NHL won’t take further steps:



If you have a source that shows a different timeline I’d be interested to see it.

I don’t get what more investigation you want the league to do - Andlauer is always playing the victim. You can’t take anything he says seriously.

I didn’t say I wanted an investigation. I said the only way to know whether there was tampering is to know what was said and what wasn’t between Drury (or the Rangers generally) and Brooks. The league won’t look into it so we won’t know.