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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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I certainly don't blame Feaster for the return, but there was clearly a lack of communication somewhere about what Iginla's verbal list of teams really meant. Feaster thought it meant one thing, and Iginla/Meehan thought that it meant something else.
The real question to me is, did Meehan/Iginla purposely present it in a way that misled Feaster and the Flames. No one really knows for sure (or has at least been able to prove one way or the other). Feaster is a lawyer though and should have known better. Iginla and Meehan aren't a couple of bumpkins that do "handshake" deals. They are battle ready business men who have always been good at getting what they want. People like to romanticize Iginla and while I do think he is a great guy, he has always been a tough player when it comes to the business side (recall his contract negotiations/hold out, and the fact that he was hands on with the NHLPA).