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Snapshots: Blackhawks likely to get away with spurious qualifying offers because NHL, NHLPA received paperwork
KK Hockey: Qualifying Offer Mistake By Chicago May Cost Them
Crash the Crease: Investigation ongoing in Chicago over contracts
IllegalCurve.com: The Chicago Blackhawks qualifying offer disaster continues
Blackhawks likely to get away with spurious qualifying offers because NHL, NHLPA received paperwork
Snapshots —
... : Additional sources said qualifying offers are not supposed to be mailed. Tallon said fax copies of the offers were sent to the league, so he doesn't anticipate any significant fallout. But sources said some of the offers were not faxed to the agents. If this was the Florida Panthers qualifying a fourth-liner, things would be different. Update 6:16 PM : Per TSN: July 4, TSN : According to both the NHL and the NHLPA, the investigation into how and why the Chicago Blackhawks bungled a number of their qualifying offers is ongoing. Neither side will comment, however since this ...
Qualifying Offer Mistake By Chicago May Cost Them
KK Hockey —
... leniency and attempts to sweep this issue away, it’s expected the NHLPA will swiftly file a grievance and the matter will go to a hearing.
Sources with hands on knowledge of how qualifying offers have to be filed say as innocent as this mistake may have been, there is no excuse for it, and the league should follow through with the ultimate penalty and declare all players who didn’t received proper notification, unrestricted free agents.
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Investigation ongoing in Chicago over contracts
Crash the Crease —
... the investigation into how and why the Chicago Blackhawks bungled a number of their qualifying offers is ongoing.
Neither side will comment, however since this story broke Friday evening on TSN.ca, interest into how the league and players association will respond is significant.
If the NHL grants leniency and attempts to sweep this issue away, it’s expected the NHLPA will swiftly file a grievance and the matter will go to a hearing.
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The Chicago Blackhawks qualifying offer disaster continues
IllegalCurve.com —
... to sweep this issue away, it’s expected the NHLPA will swiftly file a grievance and the matter will go to a hearing.
Sources with hands on knowledge of how qualifying offers have to be filed say as innocent as this mistake may have been, there is no excuse for it, and the league should follow through with the ultimate penalty and declare all players who didn’t received proper notification, unrestricted free agents.
Read the entire article here.
Needless to say, this would be the ultimate mistake if the Blackhawks ...
Sunday Links
St. Louis Game Time —
Happy 5th of July!...doesn't have quite the same ring does it?
Blues News:
We haven't signed anybody new and I don't see any new analysis concerning Ty Conklin. But I bet I know of a cowboy-hatted Blues fan that'll sponsor this guy's Hockey Reference page.
NHL News:
Dale Tallon didn't send out those Qualifying Offers illegally...it was the ONE ARMED MAN! Read about it at TSN, From the Rink, and Second Indian.
Ryan Smyth goes from getting to mentor Matt Duchene to mentoring Brayden Schenn. Dealt to ...
Red Wings and CBA-related odds, ends, and free agent fallout
Snapshots —
... which would seem like indentured service if not for the $62.8 million attached to it. You can indenture me for a lot less. It has been a two-year blur of incredible change in the organization, from the debut of the two wunderkinds, Toews and Kane, to the ascendancy of owner Rocky Wirtz to the New Year's Day game inside Wrigley Field to the playoffs. Hockey as the biggest news in July -- who ever would have thought it? Dale Tallon. Which might be a problem. As Chris Kuc noted, the investigation into whether Tallon didn't properly send qualifying offers to five restricted free ...
Foul Free Agency Winds in the Windy City
MVN RSS —
An unbelievable story out of Chicago: Blackhawks' management apparently failed to execute properly the qualifying offers for some key restricted free agents ahead of July 1, and this morning there's grave uncertainty that young stars Kris Versteeg and Cam Barker will be back with the club this fall. The league could rule that all Blackhawks' players who were not notified of their QOs in a timely fashion are unrestricted free agents. The players union would certainly support such a ruling. ...
Who Do You Want The Devils to Sign? -Remaining Free Agents
Speaking of the Devils —
... There is also an interesting, ongoing story out of Chicago that might make Blackhawks stars Kris Versteeg and Cam Barker, along with a few other Chicago players, free agents. ...
Hawks Lose Paperwork, May Lose Star Players
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... agent, Allan Walsh , said Saturday. “I don’t recall ever having a situation when a team has issued a qualifying offer and the player and agent haven’t received a copy.” Tallon said the offers were mailed out and postmarked June 29th, so even if they haven’t arrived, they should still be legal. But according to the league’s CBA, qualifying offers aren’t supposed to be mailed at all, rather faxed or couriered to the players. Think it’s just semantics and technicalities, that this is no big deal ? In 2000, the New Jersey Devils forgot to file the paperwork to renew the ...
‘PC Load Letter’? Tallon’s snafu could cost ‘Hawks
Puck Daddy —
There's a good chance Dale Tallon is having a case of the Monday's right now. As TSN's Darren Dreger reported late Friday night, Tallon's qualifying offers made to Blackhawks restricted free agents Kris Versteeg, Cam Barker, Ben Eager, Colin Fraser, Aaron Johnson, and Troy Brouwer might have gotten lost in the mail with the possible ramifications being that those players could end up becoming unrestricted free agents. On Friday, Dreger explained the mix-up saying that the ...
The Morning Skate: Obama Loves Ovie, Blackhawks Love Trouble
Slap Shot —
Speaking at the commencement ceremonies for Moscow’s New Economic School on Tuesday, President Barack Obama drew laughter and applause when he said … Bravo, Mr. President. And thanks to Slap Shot reader George ...
