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Originally Posted by Bmuzyka
Bu he isn't, he is holding the Flames hostage. They can't buy him out until the end of the season, and they can't trade him now, because no team will do it. If they knew he was going to retire a year prior to the contract ending, you do like we are doing with Iggy, and trade him to at least get an extra draft pick or a prospect.
Hockey isn't like the real world, where people get a Golden Handshake after they retire. In hockey, a player retiring is literally the loss of an asset for that organization. The GM has a responsibility to try and offset that loss by trading up or down, to lessen the impact.
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This is 100% your choice to think this way, and it is really fine. The biggest point in my post was: "Is this even confirmed or denied by Kipper?"
I may or may not agree with you. I can see both sides of the argument, to be honest. I just would rather wait to decide if I should or shouldn't get my pitchfork out until there is at least confirmation one way or another by Kipper himself, and just don't take "TheRealKyper's" statement at face value until then. Maybe this is really true, but at least until then I don't see the need to polish my pitchfork and light my torch.