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Originally Posted by Vedder
He took advantage of a power the Flames afforded him. If they had simply asked him for a list and left him out of the process from that point forward there would be no controversy.
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From what I understand of the situation they did ask him for a list and he did provide a list of 4 teams he would be willing to go to. Sounds like they went off that 4 team list, got the best offer from Boston and told Boston they had a deal. At that point Iginla said he'd only go to PIT, thus making the list of 4 teams he was "willing" to be traded to irrelevant.
From everything I've heard that's how it went down. Not getting his signature to waive the no trade in advance to go to any of those 4 teams caused all the problems.