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The Blackhawks' qualifying offer 'debacle'
From The Rink — ... Early indications are that this won't be a major issue, although Johnson's agent, Allan Walsh, offered these thoughts on Twitter a few hours after the TSN story came out: ...

Martin Havlat Believes in Karma
Gospel of Hockey — ... The fact that Tallon is using this as his defense suggests that he is guilty of being in violation of the collective bargaining agreement. If this is so, he should be fired whether or not the players actually become unrestricted free agents. This is simply terrible management. However, the fact that the players did not declare themselves unrestricted free agents on July 1st is curious. It seems that Tallon may have called the players to let them know that offers were coming and the players decided to let it slide. So why is the story coming out now? To be honest I'm ...

Blackhawks likely to get away with spurious qualifying offers because NHL, NHLPA received paperwork
Snapshots — ... of the players who pay the price. That egregious management errors are paid for by the players is the most distasteful part of the CBA. What an incredible blunder. Tallon waited until June 29th to mail out offers that had to be in the player's hands by July 1st? Inexcusable. I'd fire him for it no matter how this turns out. Some teams are more equal than others, and while The Fourth Period's David Pagnotta noted that the NHL planned on at least giving the matter a cursory glance... July 4, The Fourth Period : As per information obtained by TFP late last night, at least one ...