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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
My understanding (can't remember what podcast or article I read this in) is that Ottawa said that the agent had failed to submit the No Trade List, thus voiding the conditions. This is often part of these conditions, if the player or agent don't submit the list, the NTC is off.
So the trade was made based on that understanding, and then the agent produced proof that they had submitted the list to Ottawa.
Which is why this punishment is severe. Ottawa was either incompetent or lied. But in doing so they created issues for all the teams involved and the player.
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There has to be some onus on Vegas to protect themselves, all they had to do was ask the agent to confirm a list was not supplied. I tend to doubt Ottawa would lie about this, as that would be hard to recover from when you negotiate with such a small group. There is such a thing as due diligence.
Unless Ottawa makes a formal representation there is no trade restrictions then Vegas should have sought evidence.
Also, how many times did the Oiler try to trade injured players?