VanillaCoke
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- Oct 30, 2013
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A long wait for a seemingly straight forward contract
Yeah, bizarre that it took this long for something so seemingly obvious, and the comments from his agent still make no sense.
I just don't get how that makes sense. They are closer to the cap now than they were. Maybe benning was after another player instead of the 3rd.There was talk on Twitter amongst some of the beat writers that something needed to be arranged with respect to the cap before he could sign. I guess that was today, although I'm not sure how exactly, since we actually added cap in the Sutter deal.
My belief, as I stated elsewhere, is that Clendening was picked up as a stop gap defenceman due to the injuries at the time. Somewhat must have thought he had some potential upside, but the move was likely in part due to the coach being unwilling to play prospects brought up from Utica.
Just curious, why does it always take longer for the media to get the dollar amount than the signing and term? Can't all info be divulged in one quick conversation.
I think it's because the media gets the salary numbers from the player's agent, while news of the signing comes from the club.
Maybe Sven was in play for the Sutter trade?
All the hand-wringing about an impending "bad deal" and chronic "overpayment"...and it comes down the pipeline as a completely reasonable deal, pretty much exactly what you'd expect in the end.
I can't remember where I heard it, but there was something about privacy laws restricting companies from disclosing the pay of their employees except in specific circumstances. So even though the data has to come out (for cap reasons, and NHLPA puts it out I think) it's not supposed to come from the Canucks, who just put out the term.
I can't remember where I heard it, but there was something about privacy laws restricting companies from disclosing the pay of their employees except in specific circumstances. So even though the data has to come out (for cap reasons, and NHLPA puts it out I think) it's not supposed to come from the Canucks, who just put out the term.
Nope. Theres a good article on why this is a silly practice. I like the absurd comment in the middle "the wild played a game tonight, as per club policy, the score was not annouced".
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/t...letter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=nhl