1. The person an employer is negotiating with for a contract extension suddenly questions if he wants the job and when pressed further ultimately ask for significantly more money with a promotion that would supplant the job of the employer's negotiator, who is supposed to approve and submit the request. The employer rescinds the extension offer and looks at different candidates. Sounds fairly reasonable to me.
2. The context by which you used "good ol boy" characters the hiring, and Treliving, in a negative light. Other than the lack of an "exhaustive search" (and, I guess, the fact that Treliving's father isn't a loner with less effluent friends), I don't see what it is about Treliving's track record that makes him that much of a worse candidate than Dubas or a "musical chair" hiring, for that matter. Treliving has had exactly one stint in the GM position and was fairly successful (arguably no less successful than our outgoing GM, who, apparently, was also a musical chair hire, considering how quickly the Pens' process was done and him having the same amount of GM'ing experience as Treliving).
Anyway I'm not trying to get into a big thing here, I just don't see why there has to be two distinctive sides. The Leafs acted in a reasonable manner and got a pretty good GM under somewhat serious time constraints. They also had a pretty good-good GM that I would also have liked to see return who acted reasonably and in his best interests. And when Treliving trades Nylander straight up for Josh Manson and signs Tom Wilson to a 7x7 contract, I am going to delete these posts and call for Shanahan's head to be served on a platter like a Yusei Kikuchi centre-cut fastball! ;)
2. The context by which you used "good ol boy" characters the hiring, and Treliving, in a negative light. Other than the lack of an "exhaustive search" (and, I guess, the fact that Treliving's father isn't a loner with less effluent friends), I don't see what it is about Treliving's track record that makes him that much of a worse candidate than Dubas or a "musical chair" hiring, for that matter. Treliving has had exactly one stint in the GM position and was fairly successful (arguably no less successful than our outgoing GM, who, apparently, was also a musical chair hire, considering how quickly the Pens' process was done and him having the same amount of GM'ing experience as Treliving).
Anyway I'm not trying to get into a big thing here, I just don't see why there has to be two distinctive sides. The Leafs acted in a reasonable manner and got a pretty good GM under somewhat serious time constraints. They also had a pretty good-good GM that I would also have liked to see return who acted reasonably and in his best interests. And when Treliving trades Nylander straight up for Josh Manson and signs Tom Wilson to a 7x7 contract, I am going to delete these posts and call for Shanahan's head to be served on a platter like a Yusei Kikuchi centre-cut fastball! ;)