Leafs under investigation over tampering
I am on the fence on this, sure he talked about the Sedins but he said let’s just speculate. I think that part saves him and Toronto.
Tampa said out loud that it would take Kaberle and Schenn to get the #2 overall pick and nothing happened.
I think the NHL is investigating it because they have to, but I doubt anything happens but on the outside chance something does I think it will be a fine or at most mid level draft pick.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are under investigation for tampering because of comments made by head coach Ron Wilson about the club’s interest in Daniel and Henrik Sedin prior to the free-agent deadline on July 1.
Leafs general manager Brian Burke confirmed yesterday that the NHL has informed him that the league will examine potential tampering because of remarks made by the Leafs coach in an interview with a Toronto radio station last week.
“The league has indicated that they are looking into it, so we will have no public commentary at this time,” Burke said yesterday when asked to respond to a column published by the Vancouver Province last weekend in which an unnamed NHL executive remarked that what Wilson said was a “clear-cut case of tampering.”
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When I heard the interview last week prior to July 1st I thought it was borderline at best. Rarely do you hear coaches speak that openly about players whose rights are still held by other teams.
I loved it because he was being candid and honest.