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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
This is exactly right.
Iginla exercised the rights he had in his negotiated contract. Don't blame him.
That restricted severely the number of teams that Jay Feaster could deal with and had the expected impact on the return netted. Don't blame him.
No blame here. Just the nature of NTCs.
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That's fair, but Doug MacLean mentioned something interesting when this happened last year. He said as a GM in this situation, if a player gives you a list of 4 teams, you have to get them to sign off saying that they can be traded to any of those 4 teams (and is what is typically done in these situations). Otherwise you leave yourself in a weak bargaining position where it's difficult to bargain in good faith. I assume that due to Iginla's standing with the team, they didn't want to make him (or he refused to) sign anything. This turned out to be a big mistake.