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Originally Posted by taxbuster
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.
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I'll back you up by saying I've talked with a member of the front office last summer and got the same answer, that they made a mistake, that they should have had more people working on it to make sure the deal would 100% work. They knew that O'Reilly played games after the lockout was over and never checked if that was going to be an issue with the league.
Still shocked that there was no firing back then for the mistake, knowing it was an actual blunder of that magnitude.