Frankly, it was probably for both hockey and business reasons why ownership shot it down. If it was just about money, Treliving would have never got to the point of seeking a deal involving taking on additional salary. The ownership doesn’t also seem like the meddling type to interfere with personnel. Having said that, it was probably loosely defined that if it’s a major deal or taking on salary, bring it to ownership. Then it’s up to Treliving to sell the benefits. If he’s not convincing to ownership and they had reservations from how it helps them now or down the road and their business liquidity, they’d shoot it down. There’s probably a very grey area here where they weren’t convinced of the benefit of taking that additional salary on for the player. Frankly I would in this case. I thought Zucker was the flavour of the month last year much like Hamonic was the year he was acquired.
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