Ex-Isles GM waiting for paycheck

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In his 40 days and nights as general man ager of the Islanders during the summer of 2006, Neil Smith ran the team's Entry Draft, selecting Minnesota Golden Gopher right winger Kyle Okposo seventh overall, and he signed free agents Mike Sillinger, Brendan Witt, Chris Simon, Andy Hilbert and Tom Poti, the first four of whom remain with the club. For his trouble, Smith, who unaccountably never signed the three-year, $2.1M contract to which he and owner Charles Wang verbally agreed before reporting for duty, has yet to be paid a nickel by the franchise as he waits for Gary Bettman's ruling on the grievance he brought against the Islanders more than a year ago . . . and waits . . . and waits . . . and waits.

New York Post

Neil Smith , Mike Stobe/Getty Images

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November 4, 2007 11:11 AM ET

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Keep waiting. Looks like you had you head down and got checked pretty bad....

cmh_phx

Tempe , AZ

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November 4, 2007 01:31 PM ET

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ooooooh . . .when he was'nt looking too !!!

groundpounder

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November 4, 2007 08:04 PM ET

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That is kicking you while he is down. Very douchbaggery.

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November 5, 2007 08:50 AM ET

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Bettman is too busy running the league into the ground to get around to making a decision on this case apparently. He's lucky Smith is so in tune with his love of the game, otherwise he'd probably be well within his rights to sue the league as well. Why would this take so long? And why would Wang not just pay Smith the money? It'd only be pocket change to Wang anyway...