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So maybe this is a silly thought, but I was wondering if there was any type of recourse for (or conditions to) a player or someone associated to a player (i.e AGENT) publicly spewing vitriol about an organization, particularly when talking about exaggerated/unsubstantiated/subjective or perceived slights? And again, this might be silly, but I almost wonder if this could even be a form of tampering? Couldn't the aim of these constant, unprovoked barrages be perceived as attempts to sway other players from signing in Toronto? I don't know, this is all so bizarre; I can't understand what the end game or purpose to these whines are.
 
Andy07 said:
So maybe this is a silly thought, but I was wondering if there was any type of recourse for (or conditions to) a player or someone associated to a player (i.e AGENT) publicly spewing vitriol about an organization, particularly when talking about exaggerated/unsubstantiated/subjective or perceived slights? And again, this might be silly, but I almost wonder if this could even be a form of tampering? Couldn't the aim of these constant, unprovoked barrages be perceived as attempts to sway other players from signing in Toronto? I don't know, this is all so bizarre; I can't understand what the end game or purpose to these whines are.
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The agent in question doesn't really do this for any of his other players, so the Occam's Razor conclusion is he is doing it at the behest of the one he represents on this matter.

The only purpose it serves at this point, since Toronto isn't going to pay Marner anything more the way these stories worked out on that second contract, is to try and lock in the narrative that Marner left his hometown draft team because he was the victim of organizational machinations and not protected from fanbase vitriol.

The actual result, as we're seeing this past week, is everyone around the league is starting to see the Marner camp for what they have been throughout his career. For the first time in my life, I'm seeing other fanbases rally around the Leafs.
 
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Its's instructive to me seeing even Sittler not bury Harold Freaking Ballard in the way Marner's camp does of the Leafs crest from start to finish. It's absurd.
 
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