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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Lol, did Vegas not think to double check with the NHL office or with Dadonov himself to make sure? It's not like this is some super secret list. This just smells like Vegas doing damage control and trying to push the blame to another organization for their own eff up.
It's not Ottawa's responsibility to make sure Dadonov is tradeable to a specific team or not after that player is out of their organization. It's on Vegas. It doesn't matter what Ottawa told Vegas. At the end of the day, it's their own fault they didn't check properly.
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According to Friedman's tweet earlier, it seems like the NHL was also misled. From his tweet it seems that Ottawa told NHL and Vegas that the clause expired or wasn't filed. The NHL said "Okay, good trade!". Why should Vegas assume otherwise if the governing body rules that everything is good. The NHL seems to have screwed up by not verifying Ottawa's claims in the trade call in the summer of 2021. Mistakes were made and it may not be Vegas' fault here.