04-09-2021, 08:27 PMSimply Incorrect Wrote: @"luketd"

My issue here is that HO actually admits that the language of the rule is “murky at best”, which means you acknowledge it would easy to misinterpret, which HO also says is the reason behind the infraction.

Which means there was no ill-intent on Toronto’s side, and they didn’t intentionally do this to subvert the rules and gain an advantage.

So with all that, it feels rather silly to be going back 3 seasons to retroactively punish them for this. A change of language and a warning going forward would of made more sense.

The part that is murky is that a bonus is in relation to a S55 action but for a S56 contract. So the question is whether would it be added to S56, because the action was completed in S55. Or is it added to the S57 cap because the contract was accepted for S56 bonus.

HO agrees that it would apply to the S57 cap, but we also agree that ML did not do it in ill-will, hence why we lowered it to a 2 mil cap hit instead.

I hope I answered your question