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Originally Posted by Mike F
I'm not saying they intentionally waited, I'm saying that when they released the statement no team would be negatively impacted, which makes it really easy to take a hard line position.
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Wasn't it not a statement from the NHL? But rather an off-the-cuff answer by Daly when asked a question by a reporter (Johnson) I think?
There were just too many ambiguous language in the MOU at the time and the way this may have played out if the Avs didn't match could've been different. There was just no guarantee that everything was definitive when we're dealing with what-if's.
I think what the League interprets may not always be the only way it is interpreted - see the Wideman fiasco, from 20 to 10 games.