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Originally Posted by old-fart
Very true - there are only 31 other potential trade partners out there. Pissing one off, and in such a public way, is bound to limit your options going forward. The only other example of this I can think of is the brilliant Kevin Lowe demanding Comrie repay his signing bonus after apparently striking a deal with the Ducks (for a package that included Corey Perry no less). Lowe severely hamstrung his ability to make any reasonable trades for some time, and I was very sad about it (not actually).
But those aren't the only options... Vegas could have asked if there was an issue with the NTC and Ottawa could have responded "no" - meaning (at least in their minds) "don't worry about it Vegas isn't on the list". There could be multiple permutations of how that conversation went that aren't nefarious.
I'd never buy a used car that I knew had some mechanical issue and just trust that the salesman was being 100% forthright in saying the issue was totally fixed and not to worry about it.
Should Ottawa have sent over the list? Ya, for sure. If they knew they had it, they should have sent it over.
Should Vegas have asked the agent or the player sometime in the following 8 months what the deal was with his 10 team NTC, especially if they were considering moving him to free up cap space? Absolutely. There is zero reason for Vegas to have not made that call to the agent. I can't believe they didn't call the agent anyway to at least say "look, we got ourselves in a bit of cap trouble here and one potential option is moving Dadanov. We really like him and hope we don't have to, but it is one of the potential things we are looking at...". If they didn't even have that common courtesy to one of their players that they just traded for less than a year earlier, they deserve whatever they get.
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They were lead to believe he did not have a valid NTC any longer because it wasn't sent to Ottawa by the agent.
That has since been disproven.
So in their mind, there was nothing left to be talked about as far as the player or the agent.