Now that I think about it Gillies could get into trouble for that tweet.
Blue Jackets still have an exclusive 30 day negotiating window and what Gillies wrote is essentially tampering in public.
written into every player's contract:
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10. The Player agrees he will not tamper with or enter into negotiations with any Player under SPC or reservation to any Club of the League for or regarding such Player's current or future services, without the written consent of the Club with which such Player is connected under penalty of a fine to be imposed by the Commissioner of the League.
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:/ do some people even read what goes on in other threads?
To be fair the Trade Rumors/Speculation thread (I'm assuming that's what you're referencing here) can really get bogged down with ridiculous proposals and off-topic bickering. A lot of people don't bother with it at all any more.
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To be fair the Trade Rumors/Speculation thread (I'm assuming that's what you're referencing here) can really get bogged down with ridiculous proposals and off-topic bickering. A lot of people don't bother with it at all any more.
Think there's a specific Reilly thread, but yeah I agree mega threads can be hard to follow and I don't check a lot of them
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To be fair the Trade Rumors/Speculation thread (I'm assuming that's what you're referencing here) can really get bogged down with ridiculous proposals and off-topic bickering. A lot of people don't bother with it at all any more.
I only go in there to see if SureLoss has played something
Iginla, who is slated to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, was cautious with his comments but the issue of tampering was raised by the Hotstove Tonight panel during its Saturday night segment.
The Boston Bruins had thought they had a deal in place to land Iginla, but that fell through because of Iginla's wish to play in Pittsburgh.
However, Hockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Friedman doesn't see any proof that tampering took place.
"There is a thing that gets put up in all the dressing rooms now, and technically players can [be guilty of] tampering," said Friedman. "They're told personal communications to entice a player under contract with any other team to come to your team, that's not allowed. It's sort of put up in any dressing room.
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When does Gillies contract start?.... That could be key, if it doesn't start until next year he should be good, no?
Gillies' contract already started.
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Think there's a specific Reilly thread, but yeah I agree mega threads can be hard to follow and I don't check a lot of them
exactly ... I'd rather have more topics each for a particular topic than hope I managed to catch page 77 in the trade discussion conversation that has already wrapped to page 81
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No way the NHL sees this as actual "tampering" though. Gillies never even mentions the hockey team.
Players are allowed to extol the virtues of any city they like...which is all that is said in this tweet. If he had gone on and mentioned facilities/management/coaching or players, it would likely have some backbone as to tampering, but on it's own it is completely innocuous.
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At most, Gillies will get asked to remove the tweet and be warned to watch what he posts in the future.
The Flames media people are usually pretty sharp on things like this (Peter Hanlon seems to be hovering in the background of every player interview), and the fact that it's still up likely shows how much concern there is that it would be considered tampering.
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