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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It was a 1st and a 3rd, and it was pretty effing close.
Closer than, say, not giving O'Reilly an offersheet, which 29 other teams managed.
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People really seem to forget how the whole thing went down and just remember what COULD have happened. The whole debate was dropped as any conclusion would have just been academic anyway. The issue that not only was an interpretation of the rule questionable, but most GMs didn't even know O'Reilly had played 2 games in the KHL, including the GM of the Avalanche themselves and O'Reilly's own frikken' agent:
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O’Reilly’s agent, Pat Morris, has said he didn’t know. Greg Sherman, the general manager of the Avalanche, cannot have known, otherwise he would have told the 29 other teams that any RFA offer to O’Reilly would result in waivers, destroying O’Reilly’s negotiating position
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So in short, nobody knew. The Flames claim they had a different interpretation of Clause 13 of the NHL’s Memorandum of Understanding, the back-of-a-cocktail-napkin document that is being used to govern the league until a full CBA is written. As pointed out by TSN legal analyst Eric Macramalla, there is at least a sliver of daylight there.
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http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013/...and-avalanche/