Oh, my own personal theory was that it got personal with Daryl. Dion was certainly not learning and definitely liked the hits instead of picking his points but there wasn't even a murmur of a possible deal until it happened. If he was truly shopped to every team, given his name and age at the time, it'd have been leaked, 100%. Daryl played with the other man in the old boys club and sent him to the biggest hockey market where Dion would be critiqued. Remember how much Daryl liked him when he was drafted and what he turned into in the end days with the club? Toronto was enamored with his potential and size and Daryl, thinking addition by subtraction and teaching him a lesson that he wasn't as valuable as he thought he was, dealt him for peanuts. Make no mistake, at the time it was peanuts. The fact that there wasn't even any future picks or real mid-end young players coming back showed that this was personal because there's no way that could've been seen as a nice deal for giving up a young player that most seen as high potential. No GM would be that bad a negotiator. Sure Stajan has stuck around for a very long time but the return should've been much greater.
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