Blocking St. Louis from making the trade would be a rule aimed at inhibiting trading in a league based largely around it.
In real life, it makes sense because it's unfair to the player to make him bounce around from team to team, so only teams that want to keep him should be claiming him.
In the CPHL, the player is a grouping of numbers and letters with no family, whom we want teams to be able to swap without unnecessary restrictions.
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