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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5706531, member: 1969"]
The Sens broke the rules and deserved to be punished.   But that is not the full issue here.  The issue is a potential inccurate response by the NHL to a due diligence question (misrepresentation is perhaps strong here but it could apply) -- at least per the Sens owner comments in 2023.  If this was the case, the Sens arguably deserved some relief,

When the current Sens ownership group was looking into buying the team 3 years back (and the punishment had yet to be laid down), they had due diligence questions for the NHL.   At his first appearance as the new owner, Andlauer himself said that he felt the NHL did not accurately answer the questions related to severity of the penalty when they were doing their acquisition diligence.   He said the league said it would not be significant.   Perhaps the Sens should have pressed harder at the time.

I remember watching that press conference, and being surprised how brazen Andlauer was in challenging the NHL.  The league and Andlauer must have had a chat afterwards, because this issue never came up again in a public manner ever again.

I'm not a Sens fan by the way, but this seemed like a fair remedy.

I'm sure the league and Sens were just hoping the Sens would be good one year so that the draft pick lost would be in the mid 20's.   But when it became clear the Sens were likely going to lose a lottery pick, I'd imagine the Sens  ramped up the pressure on the league, in a professional manner to make this fairer.
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