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Originally Posted by New Era
The players knew it. Just like the players knew James Neal was a real prick. I wonder if anyone talked with them? It's all part of doing their due diligence, which they didn't do. That's the whole point. You go with known quantities so you have that paper trail of success and paper trail of behaviors.
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What players? The ones on the Rockford Ice Hogs in 2010? How many GMs canvass the players from every year of a coach’s tenure in the minors, when he was hired by two NHL teams since? I guess the Wings and the Canes were just as terrible at DD.
James Neal “being a prick” wasn’t the issue. And what his issue was was pretty easily identifiable and it’s one of the things I totally blame Treliving for. His biggest screwup in player deals IMO.