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Originally Posted by Tinordi
There's a pervasive meme around here that the Flames prioritized "Doing Iginla Right" rather than maximizing his value to explain why the Pittsburg trade debacle happened.
Could it be that maybe we were just being fanciful and revisionist to try to justify Feaster's bad handling of that situation?
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Iginla had a full NTC, he controlled his destiny. Yes he gave the Flames a list of teams that he was willing to go to, but he didn't give up his NTC to any team on the list. He had final say on which team he would go to.
You can argue that the Flames could have gotten more from Pittsburgh, but at the end of the day Iginla forced them to trade him only to Pittsburgh.