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Originally Posted by GioforPM
How do you know how many teams passed, BTW? Every team has different needs, some who would have not passed maybe had a worse second round pick, or they liked Kevin more than the other teams' offers. Maybe there was even a bidding war between teams.
You have no idea, or at least you haven't provided any reason to think that Lazar was offered to 30 teams and only Calgary was interested.
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Lazar had been available for weeks. It was public information that he had asked for a trade and was being shopped by the sens. Days before the deadline the senators leaked that they had a second round pick on the table but were looking for a first.
That sounded so implausible, in part because the perceived value for Lazar was lower than a second, that posters such as myself and sureloss questioned whether the sens were attempting to manipulate the market by saying they had a second when they didn't.
As it turns out it was likely the flames who were involved early with an offer for a second round pick, and after no one else stepped up, the sens made the deal with Calgary after bishop ended up going to LA.