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Originally Posted by gargamel
There is no chance that we would have lost the pick if Colorado hadn't matched. The wording of the MoU supported Feaster's interpretation and we'd have almost certainly gotten to keep ROR. At worst, the signing would have been voided and we wouldn't have lost anything. In hindsight, I'm glad that we kept the #6 pick, but we were still within striking distance of a playoff spot at that point and Kipper was about to return from his injury, so it was reasonable to think that ROR and a decent Kipper would have been enough to push that pick back into the teens. Regardless, I think you said it best...
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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
So is it "almost" or "no chance" ?
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I think it is now safe to say that I was at a STH meeting where KK admitted that there was a screwup. I wrote the following at the time to a couple of CPers privately:
We had a small STH meet and greet and the first thing he talked about was the "elephant in the room". He apologized, said the Flames made a mistake and said if anyone quoted him publicly or tweeted it etc. he'd deny he said it (which is why I'm passing this on privately). He said that as any accountant or lawyer knows, when there's doubt, you ask for an advance ruling and that they did not do so. They felt that they'd embarrassed the club, themselves and the fans and he wanted to apologize to us as STHs for that.
I would take that to mean that there was "every chance" they would have lost the pick. Alternatively, maybe KK was just trying to be the broad-shouldered guy and take the heat.
Given that Burke was apparently brought in to assess the club, I'd have to suspect that was also part of the consideration.