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Originally Posted by dino7c
We are discussing the proposal as it was presented, two hubs and brackets is the latest... obviously things can/should change
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Sure, but it seems the NHL has just temporarily repurposed their wheel of justice with different formats.
A savvy negotiator identifies issues that are potentially important to their counterpart, but of little concern to themselves. If you can dream up a reason you can [pretend] to care about the option least favourable to your counterpart, you've got yourself an easy concession to exchange.
Look no further than Bill Daly's "5 year contracts is the hill we will die on". Perhaps that is how the league really felt at the time. Or, perhaps they simply wanted some reasonable term length, but turned it into a major concession to get most of their other desires taken care of.
I think ideas like "completing the regular season", or these little seeding things might be similar.