There could unlimited examples. But here's one:
The team and prospects are discussing their in-season training and rehab. How kids care for themselves during the season. Talking about what the Coyotes players do in terms of stretching, and physical therapy, and training during the season. Self-care stuff. The topic is for some reason important to the Coyotes, they think they've got great info to share with kids to help them along. The kids are interested. There is a back-and-forth coaching session that includes stretching, or light resistance training or what-have-you. Fitness nerd stuff. Kid shows how they usually do it. Team offers tips. Kid demonstrates what he's learned.
It's not "testing" because the Coyotes aren't measuring results. But it's certainly not "just" an interview or sharing some tips with a kid. It's more organized and purposeful than that, and includes some activities that seem to well-cross a very blurry line.
I think that's one example of a scenario where the team saw no problem with helping a kid out, and that because it wasn't a measurement of aptitude or ability and because they weren't recording the results or using them as an evaluation metric, it's not "testing" per se. Meanwhile, I could easily see other teams being pissed off about that. To them, these trips are supposed to be for having a conversation, taking a kid to dinner, and getting to know them. It's not supposed to end up in the gym. And they don't trust the Coyotes motives and they view it as a competitive advantage, and they want a pound of flesh for what they see as an obvious transgression.
Meantime, the verbiage is way too vague and you can't really say for sure if the team violated either the letter or the spirit of the law because the law is too ill-defined and the intent is an unknown "he-said, she-said".
Grey area. There's too much of it.
And we're literally just making things up at this point because there is ZERO info. haha.
