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Old 02-23-2015, 12:31 AM   #1134
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Originally Posted by sureLoss View Post
You still haven't explained what you would do if you had nothing but low ball offers, which according to Burke was all he had.
In his case it would simply be
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As for teams lowballing you when you're not making the playoffs because you've let a player go for cheap before in that scenario, there's nothing saying you can't refuse and if the player is worth something, then some legit offers will still be there. And really, if you're losing him anyway, why not get something for him.
Really boils down to the fact that Jimmy's basis is
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I don't believe if the Flames had taken whatever...that it would impact at all on what they could get...[in] any other deal in the future, for that matter.
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I'd love to here what these low ball offers were. A 2nd? A 3rd? Worse?
I don't have the link to the Burke comments myself but looking at the deadline, the highest pick offered for a single UFA winger was Vanek. It was a conditional 5th+Vanek for Sebastian Collberg+conditional 2nd. I doubt Cammy would have gotten as much as that.

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