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What Good Is A Contract?
by Paul on 07/23/09 at 05:53 PM ET
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from Jim Kelley at Sports Illustrated,
...But something is changing in the NHL and it appears that coaches and even GMs are forcing their way out of contracts, something that wasn’t the case even in the wild unchecked days when owners could own two teams in the same division.
“There seems to be a double standard,” said a former player who recently took a managerial role and does not wish to be identified. “There was a long time there when a general manager or a coach was expected to honor his contract as long as the club wanted him to do so. It was thought to be important for the integrity or at least the perception of the integrity of the league. It seems that’s loosened up a bit for administrators but not for players, at least not for players who maybe want to play somewhere else.”
Contracts in management were indeed pretty much sacred (unless, of course, you got fired).
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