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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Then why didn't a team step up at the draft when it was widely known he was available? The only teams that had interest was the Sabres and Capitals. At the end of the day this isn't the Phaneuf trade where more than half the league didn't even know he was available. This was at the draft which after the trade deadline is the biggest trade weekend of the season with Feaster going from table to table looking for a deal and there just wasn't interest for Regehr @ $8 million owing. I simply don't understand how fans can say he had more value when no teams were interested in giving up said value.
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As I said, many teams likely wanted to see how the players they targetted in UFA market was going to shakeout first (either for them, or, for divisional opponents) in the days following July 1.
Not saying Regher would've gotten a massive return...but the Flames were otherwise in no rush to dump Regher for any particular reason, and there would've been a lot more suitors and offers for Feaster to choose from just 1.5 weeks after the draft, which thus would've resulted in probably a better overall set of packages to choose from.