Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Not all high level executives know what they are doing. I've learned that along the way. At all levels there are people who don't have the skill set to be where they are.
The best example I can think of is Matt Millen with the Detroit Lions. To be a high level executive you need to convince a person or a board you are good enough. Sometimes the decision maker makes the wrong hiring decision.
I don't profess to know more about hockey than Feaster, I bet I know less about hockey than 3/4 of the people here. What I do know is that high level executives, who are competent enough to hold their job would know that CBA inside out. This is a small gaff in the sense it had small consequences but its the same type of gaff as the ROR deal last year where he doesn't have a proper working knowledge of a contract that dictates precisely how they can act.
|
You realize that the final CBA hadn't been released yet at the time of the ROR offer sheet, right? His interpretation was based on the Memorandum of Understanding and not the CBA. The issue wasn't that he didn't know what the MOU said, but rather, what that he interpreted differently than the league, and didn't clarify. The Avs appear to have made the same mistake given how quickly they matched. The MOU didn't dictate precisely how they could act, as you assert, but rather, was a document that outlined what would become the CBA, but was missing a lot of details and clarifications that would eventually make it into the CBA.