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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
None of that has anything to do with the protocol you follow when dealing a player with a NTC/NMC. You're illustrating the folly of the organization right here...
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SO WRONG. It has EVERYTHING to do with why things played out the way they did. I don't blame you for not liking it. I don't like it either, but it is
simply naïve to imagine that Iginla's legacy did not have an enormous and irrevocable impact on the circumstances of his trade.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
...There is a legal framework within which general managers, agents and players maneuver. Calgary didn't follow it and surprise, surprise, were burned substantially because of it, to the point where the president of the organization offered his own regret about the decision.
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Of course the Flames are filled with regret! But that does not preclude that things would ever have played out differently under different personnel, or that it would have played out differently two years ago.
We can't really know how this scenario would play out under a good GM until another team's seventeen-year veteran, future Hall of Fame player and the most recognisable figure in his community is traded in the final year of his contract.