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Originally Posted by Phil Russell
This seems pretty straight forward to me. Iginla put forward a short list of teams. Three teams submitted offers. Iginla chose the team he wanted to go to. Feaster couldn't do much to alter any of these events and his ability to play the teams against each other, to ask for more, was limited by the fact that Iginla, who could care less about the return, had final call on the trade.
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Except that if Feaster submitted that short list of teams to the NHLPA right off the bat then he could have traded Iginla to any of those teams and not need Iginla's sign-off. Instead, by just doing everything informally, he got into this whole mess where he worked out a deal with the Bruins then Iginla changed his mind about what teams he'd accept a trade to.