| 06 July 2009
JP just got a little sexier.
Who proposed this deal? Did Ohlund's agent J.P. Barry have this all conceived going in and say to the first team that called: 'This is the asking price,' at which point Tampa simply said 'sold' without the slightest haggling?
Did Tampa get enough time between the hassles in their own ownership to formulate this generous payout and then present it to Barry, who was so bowled over he took it immediately? By Tony Gallagher, The Province
So, he can get that over the hill bum Ohlund signed in the same time it takes me to get bored with a Tim Burton movie (15 minutes) but he can't find a way to trick Dany into saying 'Yes'?
Clearly Barry is a superhuman with supreme technique in the art of persuasion. He is a man of two styles. The man who signs players in 15 minutes flat to complicated contracts and the man who's best efforts to please his client, Dany, have been relegated to "No. When we said you could pursue Edmonton as a trade destination we didn't mean for a trade or anything, just to y'know, talk a bit and stuff I dunno whatever you guys do. Has that cheque cleared yet?" Glad you stayed up all night on June 30th tampering with the Lightning when you should have been feeding Dany drinks and making him sign his name all over legal documents that would ensure his bags were packed and skeletons buried by the next morning.
Maybe this is the wrong way of looking at it, maybe it isn't Barry and Stacy (don't even care if that's the right spelling - there's only one way to spell a girls name when you're a dude) after all, maybe its just that Dany is a pariah of the agent world (as well as the hockey world, the Ottawa community etc.) and is completley illogical and refuses to take the best advice. He's just going to do his own thing and there's nothing Super Sexy Agent of the World JP Barry can do. If this case is beyond even the strengths of our beloved Tampering Hero, then maybe we'll be seeing Dany back in Kanata this fall after all.
Conspiracy theorists, have at it.
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