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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You can’t force other teams to trade with you. The return Columbus took for Anderson was a 25 year old centre coming off seasons with 45, 72, 44 points. What Flames offer do you pitch that beats it?
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I don't play silly trade proposal games.
Point is, players were available to be signed or traded for. He got cold feet and bailed.
He had outside forces nick the Bishop and Zucker deals. Could things have been different there? No one is asking why the Bishop deal was so last minute. The guy was on the radar for how many months? Could he not have made some pre-talks with King? I don't know, but throwing it out there as an odd reason to miss out.