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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Ahh, the old canard of "they should have shopped him around more". That is code for "the GM didn't do his job".
Treliving was on the phone right when the season ended, and "Bruins shopping Hamilton" rumours had persisted for a few days already. The second those rumours started, every GM who hadn't already contacted the Bruins should have been on the phone.
We profited because our GM was on the ball while other teams' management was not.
Whether the B's accepted the best offer they did get is an unknown.
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Didn't Treliving joke about how he was always working the phones with other GM's, to the point that he's probably annoying them?
I'm wondering if that's part of the reason he was able to get this deal done. Got the ball rolling quickly with Sweeney and made the deal before most other GM's got a chance.