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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Right. That's what this comes down to. BT wasn't willing to pay the price to acquire the player b/c he wasn't confident he could sign him.
Ottawa would have kept every team they could on the hook to max the return
BT would have stayed in until it was 100% that Stone wouldn't sign.
The deadline was a pinch point so all of this would have gone down to the final days/minutes. No surprise.
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Wasn't it that the Senators wanted Valimaki in the deal and it was a deal breaker for Treliving? In retrospect it may have been worth it to make that deal if Stone would have committed as it would have filled the massive hole in the top 6 but if he wouldn't commit at the time of the trade I understand why Treliving wouldn't make that deal.