"There's a lot of guys whose contracts are up," he said.
Guys have contracts now that even if you wanted to, you couldn't do anything".
"Unfortunately, there were a couple guys with contracts in front of him," Brumwell said of Maro in a phone interview from his home in Montana.
"I think the key is to have flexibility and to not have a lot of guys with contracts you can't move," Shapiro said.
People say we were able to get some pretty positive meetings in there, because it was the players and the owners without Don and Gary, and they ask, "Why didn't you keep going in that format?" Simply put, while we play hockey for a living, a lot of these guys negotiate contracts for a living.
"There was a point where they only had two guys under contract and that was Mario Chalmers and Michael Beasley.
These guys are contracted up to and beyond the World Cup and, save in Wales, no international coach falls on his sword these days.
Dori Sheri was the head of RKO and he said "Look we've got all these young guys under contract, Rory Calhoun, Guy Materson, I don't want to borrow and particularly I don't want to borrow somebody from Sam Goldwyn because he's too tough and Nick and John Houseman fought for us and they got us.
"There's a couple of players I would like to bring to the club, but with our finances, I won't be able to make wholesale changes as we still have guys under contract.
The game sold modestly; not a blockbuster, but enough to get the guys a contract to do two more titles.
