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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The one concern I have is that Burke let the other teams and market dictate what he did instead of trying to push the market.
Instead of waiting yesterday when the market was still strong for Cammy to be a the last chance and hopefully start a bidding war he should have tried to play the inflated market by using the space to sell his asset.
When Buffalo/NewYork were asking for the moon (1st, top prospect, roster player) he should have tried to force the issue with teams interested and take advantage of what the market was at the time.
He approaches a team yesterday and says we will do Cammy for a first straight up and something might get done.
Columbus did that this morning by getting a second, third, and Frattin for Gaborik. Instead of waiting for the dominoes to fall they undercut the perceived market at the time and still got fair value back for Gaborik.
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I agree with this argument, unless of course he did try, and the teams he spoke to wanted to wait to see if they could get Vanek, Moulson or Gaborik first, and he was left as 4th fiddle...