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Originally Posted by transplant99
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.
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None of this is confirmed, and even if it is true it doesn’t change that it’s bad business practice by the Knights.
Even Burke said in his example that he reached out to the player to confirm that his NTC was no longer valid and that he’d trade him.
Taking something that was said 9 months prior on call, and not validating that with the actual player/agent involved is just bad leadership/business even if it’s not 100% your fault.
This oversight just cost the Knights millions, and might cause them to miss the playoffs this year.
If I’m the owner of that team I’m not going “It’s okay you were just going by what Ottawa told you, why would you ever check that with Dadonov or his agent directly in the last 8 months”
Honestly I don’t trust any leaks that come out in situations like this. Of course Vegas is going to leak Ottawa is at fault, it’s covering their own butt. IMO it’s more likely that Vegas was trying to be a bit sneaky here, and had Anaheim as the only interested team but knew that he was potentially on the NTC.