Cammalleri clearly wasn't worth anywhere near as much as Moulson or Vanek. His production is worse, he's smaller, softer and having a bad year.
I doubt Burke got offered anything better than a 3rd and wouldn't surprise me if he was getting offered less.
I'm fine with the decision to not deal him for significantly less than you were asking. Some of the people in this thread don't seem to understand negotiating dynamics. Burke sets a value for Cammy, it has to drop because the price on Vanek/Moulson drops so it does. Now if you are getting offered half the new reduced price how weak does it make our organization look if we just accept whatever crappy mid round pick was offered? Very weak. Burke is right, our organization will be setting prices on players in the future and the resolve we show in sticking to our prices will help receive those prices in future negotiations with these same GMs
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