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Originally Posted by devo22
how exactly would that put pressure on those teams? If he's claimed, the proposed trades are off the table anyway. If he isn't, the interested teams can say "see, nobody even wants him for free". This doesn't put Lombardi in the drivers seat, it's merely a hail mary on his part because he obviously doesn't like the trades that were offered.
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Heh. The other three teams are not doing it as a favor to Lombardi; they are obviously getting something good out of the deal they want. Now there is a chance that they don't get the pieces they want, no matter how much that includes Mike Richards (or not).
Example: If Calgary was going to take say, Richards and a 1st rounder (say, for a salary dump and a 3rd or 4th), hypothetically, and now they don't have that, do they really win? Go ahead and say Yes if you want to, but it's a trade that would have benefitted Calgary too, and now it's likely gone.
So your "hail mary" is really not beneficial to anyone except Lombardi.