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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Because this isn't a routine deal. If we wanted Seguin, names like Baertschi and Monahan were going the other way. Plus more. If we were to make a deal, it would have dramatically altered the nature of the rebuild plan.
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Routine deal in the sense that it doesn't include crazy money, doesn't include the owner paying for a guy to not play for the Flames, doesn't include a player that is bigger than just what occurs on the ice (i.e. Iginla, Crosby, Alfredsson etc.).
Yes it is a much bigger deal in terms of the hockey assets but I don't want Murray Edwards having a say in whether we deal picks or prospects. That is why he hired Jay Feaster. That is why you have a GM. If you don't like the moves the GM is making fire him, don't get involved in day to day operations like that.
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Plus, we don't know the context. We're talking about a Boston-based report with no collaboration. That writer doesn't know if there was a completed deal that ownership nixed, or if Feaster and co. were discussing options and formed a consensus that the cost of acquisition, plus cost of contract plus behavioural speculation made Seguin an undesirable target.
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I think it is a bogus report and don't put any stock into it. I was talking more of a general I don't think ownership should get involved in deals like this.