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Originally Posted by New Era
No, it's not. This is on "Iggy." He was the one that submitted the list and made a good faith promise to accept to any of those teams. The Flames struck their best deal and Iginla changed the rules mid-stream. King's quote said as much. Believe me, that is the last time the team trusts a player to live by his word. Iginla put the team in a bad position because he wouldn't live up to his word. Would the Flames have been better off with one deal or another? We can't say. We can say one thing for certain, Iginla put the team in a bad position. That's on him.
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He had every right to change his alleged "word". Feaster is a nitwit for not getting it in writing. These guys aren't hockey playing robots, they're human beings. He negotiated a NMC for a reason. Just because we have a smidgen of info from behind the scenes doesn't mean Iginla "put the team in a bad position". He's not the GM. It's not his job to maximize a return for his own trade. His job is to help his team win. Roast him for that if you want.
Here are his stats.
If Feaster didn't have this oversight, none of us would even know what happened and this conversation wouldn't exist. No one slights Iginla for turning down a deal to, say, the Kings or the Hawks. Because Feaster never told those teams the deal was done when it wasn't. Iginla "screwed" the franchise because Feaster got a meh return instead of the original meh+ return. Okay...
Chia - "Now, these things happen all the time, more than you know, about deals going south for whatever reason."
We know about this one because Feaster bungled it and told Chia it was done when it wasn't. Chia told the players/Ward it was done and it wasn't. It's not Iginla's fault people thought a deal was done and it wasn't. It was Feaster's, this is very clear.