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Old 09-25-2018, 03:06 PM   #301
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I am under the impression that he was not instructed to get fleeced.
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lol, jay, come on now.
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What, then? You believe Melnyk actually ordered his GM to get ripped off? Lol, Flash, come on now.
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I would bet that almost every team's owner gets involved in transactions from time to time. It might only be that they request the GM move in one direction or another, or decline to let the GM move in a direction, but I think some teams definitely have owners that meddle more than that. Melnyk being one for sure. The oilers picked Yak because the owner (and/or his kid) wanted him, even thought the scouts and management wanted Ryan Murray.

Here's an article from today about Aquilini's meddling ways: https://thecanuckway.com/2018/09/22/...ferent-reason/

We saw it in Florida a couple years ago, and Carolina's new owner is said to be pretty hands on. Wang was always meddling with the Islanders.

It happens a lot.
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And who do you think created the mantra of only trading outside of the conference?

That’s likely not a GM thing.

That’s an ownership decision.


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Lots of examples of pro sports owners getting very hands on. Jerry Jones is the GM of the Cowboys.

Pretty sure these guys aren’t playing GM on NHL19.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...arlsson-trade/

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One interesting item about the Erik Karlsson deal: how involved the owners were. There was direct conversation between Ottawa’s Eugene Melnyk and San Jose’s Hasso Plattner. Prior to the trade, Plattner spoke to both Karlsson and wife Melinda twice each to answer any questions they had about the organization or the region.

“We are fortunate,” Sharks GM Doug Wilson said, “that we have an owner who considers it a priority to make himself available when we ask him.” (With more advance knowledge of the timing, Plattner attended the team’s post-draft John Tavares pitch in Los Angeles.)

In late July, during a calmer point in this process, Melnyk directly contacted Karlsson, asking for a face-to-face meeting to see where things stood. It never happened, as the two-time Norris winner indicated he wasn’t ready to decide his future and couldn’t guarantee when that would come. That was really the point of no return for the Senators.
huh, would you look at that.
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