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Originally Posted by FakenHaken
I think it is great that there were probably 4 maybe 5 people in the room that night. Iginla, Iginla's Agent maybe by phone if not there, Feaster, Weisbrod, Murray Edwards. We know by fact exactly what took place almost as if we watched it all go down on TV. Not sure how that's possible, but anyways.
For example and I don't know the real truth as I wasn't there. I believe they received two legitimate offers from two teams on Iginla's Trade list. He was asked the question by the Calgary Flames which team would you like to go to. Iginla responded once asked the question with well if you are happy with both deals but I can choose then I choose Pittsburgh. Why not he was likely to think he would play with the best player in the world. At that point the offer from the Penguins was accepted.
However, you could be more than right as there wasn't one person from CP in that room so I can't even begin to claim I'm right and you are wrong. Personally though I'd like to believe no one bent anyone over, the Calgary Flames treated Iginla fair by asking the question and he did the Calgary Flames good by saying if it is all good by them then I choose Pittsburgh. I think Feaster did fine there in fact I thought Iginla to maximize value should have been traded the year before but ownership probably wasn't going to allow that. So Feaster did the best he could given the circumstances.
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That's the story because that's pretty much what was explained by Chiarelli, another party intimately involved with the process.