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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
FFS people, everyone is arguing like this would have gone to a court of law to be interpreted by a judge who is only going to look at the words printed on paper.
Bettman had the God power to restore sanity should it have been necessary - we have seen commissioners in other leagues do similar things (Chris Paul trade to Lakers comes to mind). The only scenario in which Bettman would not have intervened is if the other 29 owners all hated Murray Edwards so much that they would take a hit to HRR to stick it to him.
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I'm not sure about that.
For instance when the league brought in the picks for poached managers/coaches policy it was intended to reward teams for developing strong assistant GMs/Assistant coaches, and give them incentive to allow those employees to talk to other clubs about opportunities.
Instead teams had to pay picks to hire fired coaches/managers that were technically still under contract.
The league admitted that this wasn't their intention and overturned the rule quickly, but teams were still forced to pay compensation if they hired anyone while that rule was in effect.