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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
That's a considerable assumption at the same limiting or stifling the speculation that other trade scenarios would have proffered different results.
On the one hand we cannot assume "that things would ever have played out differently under different personnel, or that it would have played out differently two years ago." But we CAN assume Iginla "never had any interest" in leaving?
That's weird. You'd think he would have signed an extension if he had no interest in leaving...
Regehr had no interest in leaving and had a NMC...
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That's fair. But does the possibility that Iginla MIGHT have entertained a trade at an earlier point in time absolve him of any role in the dimished value the Flames received in return? My point would be that he played a part, and that part should be factored into account and not held against management and ownership for some things over which they had limited control.