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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
In the end even if Ottawa did mess up 8 months ago somehow…it’s still on Vegas for not doing their due diligence.
If you’re acting in good faith with a player on your roster, and are treating players with respect, then you would reach out to the player/agent and say “Ottawa has informed us that you didn’t submit your NTC paperwork in time and the NTC in your contract is void.”
You’d confirm that with the player and his agent and not just take Ottawas word for it. In the end it lies at the fault of Vegas.
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McCrimmon must have an elephant's memory, too. I can understand not fretting much about it when acquiring the player (presumably you're not planning on trading him again immediately...), but to rely 100% on recollection of a 'verbal fact' 9 months later seems really silly.
I suspect every team - especially sellers - do a thorough review in advance of TDL of all moveable assets to specifically avoid nasty surprises like this. We know that it can take a ton of work to get a trade to the finish line.
I would also think a GM would want to pay at least a little lip service to relationship management. I can understand some reluctance to shake the boat unnecessarily, but I'm sure Dadonov and his agent (Maxim Moliver) knew a trade was possible.
"We're not planning to trade your player, but of course you understand we have to explore all possible options right now. I know he didn't submit an NTC - I'm sure he was happy to go anywhere but Ottawa [chuckling]? I can't make any promises, but if there are any teams he desperately wants to avoid I'll do my best to keep it in mind [inner dialogue - no I won't]".
It's a bit of a numbers game - chances are you won't trade him at all or not to one of the few teams that might be mentioned in the convo (thereby building a tiny bit of goodwill/reputation as a good GM to deal with). If you do trade him to an undesirable destination, well that's just business, and the player/agent won't love you either way.
Of course, somewhere in that theoretical conversation Moliver would have interrupted. FWIW he also represents Shesterkin, Radulov, Kuznetsov, and a couple young Russians, including VGK's 3rd round pick in 2019.