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Old 10-03-2018, 10:21 AM   #3142
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Originally Posted by bubbsy View Post
Brian Burke was on the fan here in Toronto this morning, here's some interesting tidbits:

- Flames were very much in on Anderson, offered the 35th overall pick. Murray picked up the phone and told the leafs to beat that. They gave up the 30th pick

- Burke called sutter about Phaneuf 3 days before the trade went down asking about Phaneuf, was told he was not available
- day or so later, Burke talking to Brian Murray who asked Burke if he was in on Phaneuf. Burke calls sutter asking wtf, sutter promises he was going to call him back about it
- they all knew something was up with Phaneuf in tge dressing room, but turns out it wasn't a beef with Iginla but other players on the flames
- sutter rejected original leafs offer which required aulie be included
- agreed to include aulie if leafs added a player (jamal frigin mayers)
- 'sutters cannot lie' deal was agreed on Saturday, but Sutter needed to get it cleared with management. But all players were playing that Saturday. Sutter promised he'd honour the deal even if all the leafs got injured that game. No one got hurt, deal went down
Kinda rough for Burke to dish the dirt on Dion like that when he's still in the league.
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