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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
It should have been.
And if Feaster didn't play his cards correctly, then that is all the more reason to blame him.
The fact remains that he got swindled.
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A bidding war between 3 teams, one of which apparently had little interest, isn't really going to amount to much though. Iginla made it such that only Boston and Pittsburgh had to offer against each other. One of the two teams has a fairly conservative GM and offered low. The other took another route around the bidding war process by piling on other players to take advantage of Iginla's feelings on the matter. The latter won out.
In this process, all Shero had to do was make Pittsburgh more attractive than Boston and, even if a worse offer than Boston's existed, Feaster's hand would be forced on the issue.
The fate of the trade was ultimately sealed when Iginla offered his list and Shero decided this was the year to go all in. I'm not sure who leaked the list, but it wouldn't make sense that the Flames' brass do it...in no world could I imagine a GM dumb enough to do that.