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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Maybe. But especially in context of the full quote and the question he was asked, I don’t really see it as much of a tactic. Unless “we’re not waiting around to see what Marner gets to decide how much to ask for” is a tactic.
It’s summer, I get it, plenty of time to kill to panic about anything, but in context this quote hardly seems like a tactic and even less so something to worry about.
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He's established the public high ground of the negotiation, that his side has been 'proactive and progressive' and established a timeline that favours their side and tabled an offer they believe is fair.
So now the flames as the other negotiating party are reactive and not proactive, regressive and not progressive, delayed or been slow in how they have conducted the negotiation so far and have not tabled a fair offer.
This is more than neutral pr, imo this is aggressive negotiating language. It's not offensive but it's clear from their side this negotiation has not gone well from their perspective.
This is uncommon language for an agent publicly I think. If there's an agent in the league who understands the cap realities this summer it's him, and I think there is some urgency here now to get a deal done before the options for Calgary become even more limited.
If you put that statement in front of a public sector labour negotiation for example, the next salvo of statements would be talking about ending talks in favour of a strike.