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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
A) To cultivate a media source who they can later use as a conduit for other information they want to get out.
B) To undermine someone else in their organization. Pro sports franchises aren’t all happy, selfless, one-for-all organizations. The executives are as competitive, jealous, and career-driven as execs in other organizations. Maybe even moreso.
C) People like to gossip and share secrets. It’s human nature.
And it doesn’t have to be a GM or an AGM. In the modern NHL you have at least a half dozen people involved once trade negotiations get serious (GM, AGMs, President, VP of hockey operations, capologist, analytics, scouts).
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This all seems a bit sensational.
Has it happened before? Yeah, probably. It is human nature as you’ve put it and it seems like there are at least one or two individuals here who post some behind the scenes info.
I just find the Dreger-Nonis thing a bit too on the nose. I’d be surprised if Nonis leaked info to Dreger on how the MRkstrom deal fell though. I don’t see any benefit to Nonis in that instance, and if it is true, I suspect he would have been terminated.