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Originally Posted by ricardodw
A bottom team would not want Iginla. He would not have gone. What are the chances that a non-playoff teams makes an offer for Cammalleri?
It would have been interesting to see behind the scenes how Regher was enticed to move to Buffalo. Buffalo finished with 96 pts the season before the Regher trade and the Flames 94. The Sabres had cap space and an owner willing to spend 3M to dump Kotalik and the Flames had Bouwmeester and Iginla.
The return for Iginla a few years ago (43 goals) , using basic mathematics , would have had to include salary coming back. The very best rumored return would have been Mike Richards and a salary dump from LA.
The Flames couldn't have gotten Cammalleri without Bourque and his 3.3 M / year going the other way. At the time CP was happy because they thought Bourque had no value and would be a buy-out candidate.
We have gotten so used to Bouwmeester's near 7M anchor we fail to see what other teams expect from 7M players.
I totally agree that the Flames had cap burning a hole in their pocket when they signed Hudler. Wideman was a better cheaper Bouwmeester replacement.
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He isn't saying we would have gotten a high draft pick for Iginla. He is saying that we would have gotten high draft picks because of starting a rebuild.
You have your facts mixed way up on the Iginla return. The rumored return was the one that eventually was given to Philly for Mike Richards (Schenn/Simmonds). There was never a rumor of getting Richards for Iginla (and certainly not from LA).