This isn’t the first time things have pointed back to those nice but completely unsuspecting types that handle media relations for parts of Bill Foley’s financial empire, much as William Karlsson isn’t the first Golden Knights player to care more about term than dollars when it comes to a contract extension.
It’s all defined by the same cause.
It all circles back to how an owner runs his franchise.
Karlsson reportedly has agreed to an eight-year extension with an average annual value of just under $6 million, but don’t embrace what will be a popular yet altogether lazy reaction that such a deal is some sort of immense steal for the team.