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Originally Posted by getbak
Or, it could have just been a hockey trade, plain and simple.
Arizona is right up against the 50 contract limit, so if they were taking on two contracts, they had to move out two. Scott makes league-minimum and was the Coyotes lowest-paid player, and he was contributing nothing to the team in Arizona or in the AHL.
It's crazy to think that this whole three-way trade was pulled off just to bury John Scott in the AHL.
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I would have agreed that it was just a hockey trade, except when you have someone as respected as Bob McKenzie, who doesn't normally like to stir things up or just throw things out there saying that including Scott in this deal was partially because of the all-star situation that's enough for me to believe that it was more than just a hockey trade.
Of course, Don Cherry went way overboard yesterday. That was as bizarre a sequence as I've ever seen (including Cherry hyping up the all-star game, an event he's refused to attend pretty much since starting with CBC).