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Originally Posted by Peanut
If true, this really makes me simultaneously want to cry and face-palm. Feaster sucks.
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I have this nasty feeling that we're going to get exactly that explanation from Feaster as soon as the deadline passes. "Nobody was willing to pay us what we feel he's worth." Well, I hope he's "worth" you losing your job, nitwit, because that's what happens when people demonstrate such incompetence.
Iginla's present and future (on-ice) value to the franchise is zero. He will never be a significant contributor to another successful season. His potential off-ice value (i.e. as the face of the franchise) is also near zero; as many people are ticked that he's still here as are hoping that he'll re-sign. But if the management allows him to leave for nothing, we're going to see the greatest backlash since Doug Gilmour.
I guess the only question that remains is, if you keep him past the deadline, what can you trade his neg. rights for prior to July 5? Wideman cost a 5th-rounder. What will be the going rate for Iginla? THAT is the only "minimum return" that should come into play before the deadline. If he's worth a 5th-rounder on June 25, then you accept anything higher than that on April 2. A 5th and a 7th? Fine with me!