Clardy as GM offering a contract to an upcoming free agent in a media piece. 100% legal move at the time. HO decides this can no longer be allowed. They then change the rule which is fine. Not so fine, they punish Clardy for having broken the rule they had just created from whole cloth. Literally retroactively punishing a team and GM for something they universally admitted was perfectly legal at the time he did it. Not the only time this type of ex post facto punishment was handed down either