It's not like a buffet where Lazar is next to the pork chops and everyone passes him over in favour of the chow me in, but it IS an indication that no other team placed as high a value on Lazar as the flames did, because it was public knowledge what the going rate was and no other team appears to have beaten that offer.
Maybe that is because the flames knew something no one else did, or maybe it's because other franchises see what is there and the flames don't. That all remains to be seen. The circumstances around the trade are pretty clear though, and the trade will eventually be seen as one or the other in a couple of years when we see what Lazar has to offer.
29 other teams could've had kipper for a 2nd rounder, but Darryl had the inside track and so kipper ended up a flame. We don't need to invent scenarios about other teams pining for him but just weren't able to make it work to acquire him, or that the trade stands on its own merit just as this one will.
This is one of the more transparent trades we as fans get to see. Player asks for trade, team publicly considers moving him, team updates league and media as to current value of offer on the table, player eventually gets moved for aforementioned return.
If someone else valued him as being worth a 1st he would've been moved for a first unless we think the sens chose a lesser deal from the flames for some reason.
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