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Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands
You took one tidbit of information and made your decision. Could he have been wrong? The DOU stated otherwise. The fact is you just jumped the gun.
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I don't really understand where you're coming from with this. The Deputy Commissioner of the NHL gave his interpretation of the waiver rule declaring that ROR would have to be put on waivers in order to join an NHL midseason and you accuse board members of making a baseless assumption that ROR would have to pass through waivers in order to join the Flames? Who are you insulting here?
Feaster can interpret things however he wants but if the NHL front office is adament that THEIR interpretation of the rule is the correct one, Feaster can't just put ROR into the lineup. He wouldn't be allowed to play, which means Feaster had three options: 1) Put ROR on waivers and hope he clears, 2) have ROR sit out the season, or 3) Appeal the decision and have an arbitrator decide on the interpretation of the rules and hope that it gets resolved quickly enough so that the decision wouldn't become moot.
There's no way out of this. What Feaster should have said in an effort to cover his ass is something to the effect that it didn't matter if ROR can play this season because they believe ROR is a franchise player and he would be worth the wait. But no. Feaster chose to reveal to us that he was aware of the rule, that he had his own interpretation of the rule, that he didn't know or care to check to see if the NHL front office had another interpretation, and he chose to sign ROR anyways.