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getbak · 07-04-2020, 07:07 PM

Really, though, the waiver rule change has much more to do with guys like Nylander, Honka, and Puljujarvi than O'Reilly.

Regardless of what people said after the fact trying to cover their own butts, the O'Reilly thing wasn't some grand plan by Feaster to take advantage of a perceived loophole in the CBA. It was the result of a bunch of people screwing up. Primarily, O'Reilly screwed up by playing those 2 games when he shouldn't have and his agent screwed up by letting him play those 2 games. The Avs screwed up by not knowing he had played those 2 games, or if they did know, they screwed up even more by not making it public knowledge. Any team, including the Flames and Canucks, that negotiated with his agent without knowing he had played those 2 games screwed up by not doing their due diligence. Seemingly, only one person in North America even realized that O'Reilly had played those games, and rather than making it widely known (which would have killed any RFA market for O'Reilly), he decided to hold onto that information hoping to play gotcha if a team did eventually sign him to an offer sheet --- and even that backfired because the Avs matched the offer sheet so quickly, the guy didn't even get to enjoy his day in the sun.

The players who will benefit by the new waiver rules are guys like Nylander, who had to sit around not playing during his hold-out in order to keep an RFA offer sheet as a valid option. That decision ultimately hurt both himself and the Leafs because he never really got his season on track after he signed. It will also benefit guys like Honka and Puljujarvi who lost the leverage of an RFA offer sheet once they played a game in Europe after the start of the NHL season.

07-04-2020, 07:07 PM	#42
getbak Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Exp:	Really, though, the waiver rule change has much more to do with guys like Nylander, Honka, and Puljujarvi than O'Reilly. Regardless of what people said after the fact trying to cover their own butts, the O'Reilly thing wasn't some grand plan by Feaster to take advantage of a perceived loophole in the CBA. It was the result of a bunch of people screwing up. Primarily, O'Reilly screwed up by playing those 2 games when he shouldn't have and his agent screwed up by letting him play those 2 games. The Avs screwed up by not knowing he had played those 2 games, or if they did know, they screwed up even more by not making it public knowledge. Any team, including the Flames and Canucks, that negotiated with his agent without knowing he had played those 2 games screwed up by not doing their due diligence. Seemingly, only one person in North America even realized that O'Reilly had played those games, and rather than making it widely known (which would have killed any RFA market for O'Reilly), he decided to hold onto that information hoping to play gotcha if a team did eventually sign him to an offer sheet --- and even that backfired because the Avs matched the offer sheet so quickly, the guy didn't even get to enjoy his day in the sun. The players who will benefit by the new waiver rules are guys like Nylander, who had to sit around not playing during his hold-out in order to keep an RFA offer sheet as a valid option. That decision ultimately hurt both himself and the Leafs because he never really got his season on track after he signed. It will also benefit guys like Honka and Puljujarvi who lost the leverage of an RFA offer sheet once they played a game in Europe after the start of the NHL season. __________________ Turn up the good, turn down the suck!