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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
C'mon, Montreal. If all it takes is Kotkaniemi to close Sebastian Aho, make the deal. Aho is what you hope Kotkaniemi becomes anyway, except he's already a #1C.
Habs out thought themselves.
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I gave it a listen again. It's yesterday's Prime Time Sports podcast if you wish to find it. Brian Burke at 52:40 says he spoke with Bergevin and they did approach Carolina about a trade, but it was Burke speculating that it would take Kotkaniemi.
Burke: "They believed they would make it a poison pill that they wouldn't match but it didn't work. It was creative, but not creative enough. It was ingenious, but not ingenious enough and it's going to be remembered as a costly failure."