One trade didn’t go through, as it was submitted about a minute late
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Thoughts: The Buzz is back in Buffalo episode, on the deal that was submitted to the NHL that was nixed because it didn’t get submitted to the league in time.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “Okay, and what about the one that we believe got next because it was filed just a little too late?”
Friedman: “Yeah, I heard from someone about that, that people weren’t happy that that got out.”
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Bukauskas: “I wonder why?”
Friedman: “Yeah, I don’t know that one yet, either.
Like the Scott Laugton to the Kings one, that was it, like 2:59:30, somebody said. Like, it barely, it barely got in, jeez.”
Bukauskas: “Using every bit.”
Friedman: “So someone called me on Sunday morning. It was actually, it was actually quite funny. They said that a lot of teams, when you’re talking about three or four things right before the deadline, that whoever is responsible, a lot of times it’s your Cap person or an AGM who’s responsible for sending the email into the league. You’ll have like, three or four open because you know, you’re working on two or three things, and you’ll have like, ‘Okay, this is, this is (A) if you were, if you finish this deal, you send this one in. If you finish this deal, he’s sending this one in.
And, you know, this guy told me a story a couple years ago, and where he sent, he was working on three of them at once. He sent in the wrong one. And he was, it was lucky, because the central registries called him immediately and it was still with two or three minutes to the time they said, you just sent us something for a player, with a team with a player who’s not on that team. And he realized he had copy and pasted another deal that they were working on with a different team, and he put that player on the wrong team. So he was able to change it and get it in on time.
But he says, you know, it’s something you don’t want to happen, but in the craziness of the last seconds before the deadline, it can happen.
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But there was one apparently, that that got neutralized, because it came in at like, 3:01, or something like that.”
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