Eric Lindros seeing Stars

According to Sportsnet, the Dallas Stars have offered Eric Lindros a $2 million dollar contract for next season.

If you read my post from yesterday, you already know what I think about this situation - John Ferguson is a fool for playing pissant money games with Lindros. It's obvious he is a player in demand, and it's obvious that if Ferguson stalls long enough, Lindros will sign elsewhere for more money.

Does he really believe Lindros can be signed for $750,000? The fact that Dallas is willing to pony up $2 million for Lindros is indicative of this summer's free agent market; there just aren't very many high-quality centres available to sign.

In other news, the Toronto Star reports that Ferguson is leaning away from re-signing Jason Allison:

"Interest in Allison, meanwhile, appears to be waning, largely because other hockey people in the organization are beginning to have some success in talking Ferguson out of signing him."

What I want to know is, why is it other organizational insiders, not Ferguson, who are the ones who can see a problem or two in re-upping Allison, and why they need to convince Ferguson this is a bad idea?

Shouldn't Ferguson be able to assess what Allison brings to the table on his own?