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Originally Posted by HELPNEEDED
Correct me if i'm wrong, but would'nt king be the legal responsible member here. He's a officer of the orginization over seeing keasters work.
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The GM is the guy that King and the owners trust that the hockey operations side of things and the league's technicalities and legalities are correct before proceeding with anything.
Feaster (his lawyer being an ironic twist in this) is the head of that department, and his sign off on this to put it up the chain is the trust that those above him and have given him.
An absolute embarrasment, and debacle. Obscure rule or not, when you're going to stick your neck out with $10m and two draft picks on something as rare as an offer sheet, you better know everything you're doing.
There is 1% of me that makes me think that Feaster did Lacroix a favour here...the wording that the Avs GM said last night in his PC describing matching the offer (which Neil Smith ripped him for), now tied in with this news, almost makes it seem palatable that this was part of Colorado's strategy.