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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
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.
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All I meant was that he didn’t sign his contract until the last minute. So when the foreseeable complications of travelling between countries in the midst of a pandemic arose, he couldn’t get to Calgary for the start of training camp. You could say his tardiness was the result of a pandemic-immigration issue or signing his contract late. The main point is that if he would’ve signed his contract earlier, he could’ve attended training came on time regardless of the immigration complications associated with the pandemic. Instead, he lost the opportunity to impress the coaching staff, and now he really doesn’t have time to compete with Nesterov. I think if he would’ve been here on time, he would’ve had a chance at the spot next to Valimaki.