09-20-2022, 04:06 PMLeafs4ever Wrote: The Appeals Committee has received an appeal and come to a decision in favour of slightly adjusting the punishment. Explanation below:

"After reviewing the case, the appeals committee has decided to slightly alter the punishment and return BUF's 2nd round pick. Everything else in the punishment remains. Our thought process on this was that while this does constitute tampering, we felt the 1st and the cap penalty was sufficient enough for a team-based punishment. There was some miscommunication between GM and player, but there was still a point where the GM could have walked away from the situation and avoided the tampering. We believe their intentions were honest, but GMs need to be held to higher standards, which is why the user-based parts of the punishment have remained.

Our hope is that Head Office will look to include wording on inactives in their re-work of the tampering rule. We understand that inactives returning to the league may not want to be stuck on a contract they didn't agree to, so more communication is needed to let them know there are avenues to void said contract without the need for other GMs to cross a line."

RESULT: It has been voted on to return the 2nd round pick to BUF and keep the rest of the punishment the same.

Could you update the post title since this has been updated please?