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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
Perhaps it's intentional that no-trade-lists are not submitted to the NHL?
While I'm sure agents and the like leak it often enough, if not players themselves (not Dadonov of his agent though..), I could see why a Canadian hockey player like Crosby for example doesn't want to have to answer as to why he has a 7 team no-trade-list that includes all 7 Canadian teams. I could see why Pittsburgh wouldn't want to disclose that to Colorado if Sakic is afraid Treliving was targeting Crosby at the deadline as well.
I mean even Iginla 'snubbing' the Bruins (with his full NTC) made the third round of the playoffs that year a story when the Bruins played the Penguins.
Or the NHL has just assumed that when a player is traded and his contract moved the acquiring team would check all clauses and do some minor due diligence like asking if Dadonov did submit his trade list to his agent or the player himself. Sometimes things are just so absurd you don't think about it and make rules around it, then all of a sudden you got a dog playing basketball. It happens.
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I'm not saying the NHL runs the tightest ship, but I doubt many granular detail leaks come out of there. The most I can imagine is that Friedman-types might have contacts they use to confirm the validity of details they already have on information that is inevitably going to become public.