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Originally Posted by Dion
How is it possible for Iginla to know the teams years ahead of time when you are drawing up his contract and adding those teams in writing? These NMC NTC in contracts are the problem here. It gives the player control of where he is going and severly handcuffs a GM's role in getting the best deal his team. I have no doubt that Feaster told Chiarelli he had a deal only to have iginla tell Feaster and management that no we don't and i'm going to choose Pittsburgh.
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I think what King is alluding to is when they approached Iginla in the last few weeks they should have got him to sign off on a list of teams he would waive his NTC on, I assume ther is a way to make this binding on a player.
Of course what King should have said is we screwed the pooch waiting 2 years too long in a pathetic attempt to continue to squeeze out ticket sales from you poor dumb buggers, not holding my breathe on that admission though.