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Originally Posted by StrykerSteve
I fail to see how getting something is worse than getting nothing.
Regardless of the return, if you know you aren't going to re-sign him, or he's made it clear to you that he has no desire to re-sign, then you get whatever the heck you can for him right now.
Anything else would be poor business.
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Don't underestimate the importance of optics for managing a sports team.
Here's an extreme analogy.... Say you are at work and you are hungry but have nothing to eat. You go into the lunch room and see that someone dropped a piece of pizza cheese down on the floor, so you pick it up and eat it, because... something is better than nothing. How do you suppose your colleages will look at you after seeing that happen? Sure, one or two people might think it was ballsy, but most will not be impressed.
If Feaster gives in because "something is better than nothing", how do you think future dealings will go with his colleagues? They will know that if you hold out long enough, he'll fall for scraps. In some situations, when you consider long term image problems, nothing is preferrable. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but if the Iginla trade doesn't yield meaningful assets, I'd rather the Flames make a stand.