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Originally Posted by OILFAN #81
It was a firm first from Boston as per Chiarelli. McKenzie said Feaster preferred the Boston deal but Iginla nixed it.
1st (Bos) + Khoklachev + Bartowski
1st (Pit) + Agostino + Hanowski
Those were the deals.
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As I said it's all trivial now....Boston can say they were willing to offer the moon and it doesn't matter one iota. When I went to bed, I heard conditional first, and that was just plain awful, also wrong because he wasn't going to Boston! The thing is maybe it started as conditional first earlier in the day than Feaster got Pittsburgh to committ to a sure thing first. At which point Boston comes back with take the condition off the first, but at that point Pittsburgh is close enough that Iginla can say I'm going there.
At this point I hope the Bruins players are really motivated to beat Pittsburgh knowing Iginla picked that team over there's...
The Flames are going to look bad either way though...when you trade a plyer like Iginla the loser in the bidding war is going to cry foul. If you remember the Lindros saga...not quite that, but a bit similar, maybe more like the Canucks losing out on Brad Richards...to Jay Feaster ironically. At least this way the player won't be in a situation where he says I wanted them to trade me to Pittsburgh, and they lied to me about them not being interested. It's in Iginla's court now.