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Originally Posted by Red
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.
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So you are chucking the actual trades as evidence of the value needed in favour of “he got cold feet and bailed”. OK. Sure, if he’d just argued more, he could have gotten Anderson for less than what Montreal paid, or PLD for less than what Winnipeg paid. But you are then assuming other GMs are just stupid or lazy.