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Originally Posted by pokerNhockey
I agree you were not "delayed" at the grocery store in your story, but you were late because of needing to go to the grocery story in the first place. Therefore I think it is reasonable to say that you were late because of going to the grocery store as long as you don't say "delayed".
If on the other hand you were at the grocery store and you were late because it took some time for you to get the grocery list from your spouse so the deli guy wasn't able to start prepping your order, it is reasonable to say you were delayed at the grocery store. I think that is a better metaphor for this situation.
Agreed. But without the contract he wouldn't have qualified as a NHLer for immigration purposes.
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We’re getting deep into semantics, but I’m entertained. Your metaphor is stretching things to align with the wording of delayed by immigration. Then he’s delayed by packing his suitcases too.
It’s all a chain of events then where the only delay was inking the contract if immigration didn’t provide any unexpected hold up.
It’s guaranteed teams have no shortage of understanding of typical immigration timelines for every region.
You don’t usually commonly hear of NHL players having a 15 day time period between signing a contract and entering the country. Especially a player who’s been here for 5 previous years. Christmas overlap could have caused an unexpected immigration delay above usual processing times. Not necessarily reasonably foreseeable as most player transactions take place in the summer sans COVID. So perhaps Kylington and the Flames were comfortable that signing on December 18th was sufficient to get to Canada and meet quarantine in time for camp but immigration did delay. We don’t have details on the contract discussions nor the immigration process so to base assumptions about the player or the Flames is unreasonable, but I’m not a lawyer or in media.