Majorityof1
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Remember when Tarasenko tried to get the team to sign Panarin and Hitch and Armstrong ignored him? Ya I remember. So grats on being the GM that does **** like that.
In The Slot: McGinn's ties to Blues center help him land tryout in St. Louis
Very specific quote from said article.
McGinn, who most recently was with the Florida Panthers (along with Brouwer) last season, was skating and working out in Toronto after playing in two games for Carolina's AHL team, the Charlotte Checkers. He and O'Reilly spoke, the former connected McGinn with Armstrong and a mutual agreement was made.
Connected is not recommended. Armstrong could have asked O'Rei about McGinn or McGinn could have asked ROR to let Army know he was interested. Both could occur without O'Reilly actually requesting Army do anything and both would still be connected.
For every example you give of a Panarin, there are probably 20 more examples like Steen being buddies with Joakim Lindstrom. As a GM, you can take recommendations from players but you have to do your own due diligence and be ready to tell a player no if you don't feel his buddy will not help the team.