Excellet article, Bingo. You hit on something in this that I never really considered, but I think you are dead-on:
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Originally Posted by Bingo
A quick look at the client list for Lewis Gross’s company out East suggests that the Gaudreau contact may just be the most important contract in the firm’s history suggesting two things that may or may not be true.
1. a lack of experience in negotiating NHL star contracts, something that may have been seen in the side’s odd statement of not wanting to negotiate during the World Cup.
2. a need to “kick ass” in order to draw in more clients.
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I think #2 might be closer to the truth than #1, since Gross has been representing NHL players of various stripes outside of elite-level players for a couple decades now. Surely he is no stranger to negotiations with team managers.