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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
It’s pretty obvious the deal shouldn’t go through. If teams can just say ‘oh nobody told us about that part of the contract’ for a contract they have and traded for then it will be a free for all from now on.
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Yeah, a normal part of a business acquisition is to go over every important contract to make sure it’s all up to date, there are no hidden surprises etc. In a player acquisition there is one contract and, in this case, a list of NTC teams. I mean, I’ve heard of offseason trades are subject to a physical. That’s due diligence. It would have taken 5 minutes to check this when Vegas traded for him.
And who’s to say they wouldn’t have taken him anyway, it’s not like they knew at the time he’d be a TDL trade, let alone to Anaheim in particular.