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Originally Posted by sureLoss
GM executive committee has asked the NHL to negotiate with the NHLPA to shorten the maximum term from 8 years
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Hey GM's... I have the solution for you and it doesn't involve having to negotiate with the NHLPA at all... are you listening? ready? okey here it comes... "just don't sign guys to contracts that long".
I'm really annoyed whenever stuff like this gets floated. Management incompetence mitigation shouldn't be a defacto CBA item, just hire smarter people to run your hockey teams.
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
It isn't a question of smart or dumb. Agents of star players know there's always a GM out there who will offer max term, so they make that non-negotiable. Even with RFAs, if you don't offer a guy the whole 8 years, he can Tkachuk you and walk to UFA status at the earliest possible date.
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So what.
Look, signing those deals is one of two things... it's a good idea or it's a bad idea. If it's a good idea then you should do it and if it's a bad idea then you let someone else make that mistake.
I think this is nothing more then the GM's collectively defacto admitting that they're nothing but a collection of short-sighted individuals with no impulse control (or you know... people who shouldn't be a top executive for billion dollar companies). Learn to suck it up, put on some big boy pants and control yourselves fellas... it's not the League or the Unions job to stop you from ####ing up. That's all on you.