TML fan said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
TML fan said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
This is may ultimately be a minor point but I still think letting it play out like it did is a failure (of process, not results) on the part of Dubas. If the reported timeline is correct, they got the signed contract at 4:52p EST ... and still had to do some back and forths before submitting to the league. That is insane.
Sure, it came out all right at literally the last minute but the process is important. There was no need for that. All Dubas/Leafs had to do is tell Gross/Nylander that our drop-dead, not-going-to-be-extended internal deadline is X, where X is some date/time well in advance of the official deadline (and we can debate endlessly what an ideal X would have been).
There is no way a manager should have let that become a high-wire act.
I don't understand this line of thinking. If they had an internal deadline, the deal might not have been done at all. How is that a better outcome?
Why wouldn't it have gotten done? The dynamics are exactly the same ... so long as Dubas (or whomever) makes it clear to the agent/player that it is a hard deadline. Of course if the manager isn't committed to that, it doesn't make sense.
Because it's pretty obvious that Nylander's camp wasn't ready to deal until it came down to the wire, if what Dubas said about Nylander calling him is to be believed.
Any kind of internal deadline is just nonsense from the other side of the table. If Nylander's camp called back at the exact same time they did yesterday and said "Let's make a deal" and Dubas was like "nope sorry deadline is passed" then that would be the real failure because the only deadline that passed was the made up one that doesn't mean anything.
It's not nonsense if it's enforced. That's what makes any deadline mean something. If he'd set an earlier deadline and stuck to it, what's the difference? The difference is that he would have had time to trade Nylander, if he he wanted.
Think of it like this. What if the metaphorical fax machine had gone down at 4:50p? Say, a fire alarm goes off in the hotel, the power goes out, the cell connection or web or whatever goes down. Today we'd be reading stories about how Dubas blew it, and he would have. He, not Nylander's camp, controls the contract process.