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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
IMO Garth Snow ruined the deadline with him holding holding his cards to the very last minute in hopes of hitting a home run which held the Flames and Sabres hostage. He screwed over himself as well as the Flames as he had to accept a "take it or leave it" very poor return for Vanek over no return at all at the very end leaving the Flames in the exact same scenario with the teams that had Cammalleri 1B or 1C to Vanek. Burke chose to take no return over a junk deal. Teams in the future when it comes to dealing with Snow will know they can always rake him over the coals but they still know the Flames aren't going to give up assets for free. Also lets not forget Cammalleri was hot garbage for the majority of the season leading up to the deadline and caught fire after so we don't really know what his perceived value was as a rental at the deadline. It may have not been very high even without the Islanders botching things up.
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Gillis and kesler also screwed things up. That took a lot of peoples time leading up to the deadline.