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Old 07-05-2018, 06:12 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe View Post

As for the RFAs today, remember that this has nothing to do with how negotiations are going. This is a safety mechanism for all of them to ensure that they make available an agreed-upon tool. If they didn't file, and then suddenly negotiations went south, they would not be able to use arbitration to remedy a contract impasse. So nobody freak out.



Also, Treliving was a very busy body traveling and trying to sign these UFAs, and he had stated that the focus will now shift to the RFAs. I would be surprised if any actually end up in arbitration.
Agreed. The league needs to go through the process of making sure the arbitrators and dates are scheduled during that window, so players that are eligible, need to decide if they was that tool available.

There is no reason to think that contracts won't get worked out in the meantime. And it has no bearing on the relationship between the players and team. It does guarantee that they will all be signed in time for camp, which is great.
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