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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Next time get the 3-5 in writing. Hard to fault of guy for enforcing the no movement clause that's in his contract. I'm not even upset at Kipper for using the no trade clause that wasn't in his contract.
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Yeah, it's the organization that looks like a group of dummies, not Iginla.
Iginla always looked out for number one. In a cutthroat business like hockey, that's his primary responsibility.
He gave a list of 4 teams, 3 came back with actual offers. I think, faced with that scenario, you have to be double-dumb to not go to him and say "ok, will you waive for these 3 teams?" and if he says yes, you ask for it in writing. It's Standard Operating Procedure within the CBA for a player with trade limitations.
That the management team admitted as quickly as a day after the fact that they should have gotten his list in writing is pretty much the exclamation point on that.