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Originally Posted by dissentowner
It already happened when Button traded for Chris Drury. Button was comically stupid though so...
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That is a bit different IMO.
Drury went from a cup winning and perennial cup contender, to Calgary who hadn't made the playoffs in 7 years, and looked to be nowhere near a contending or cap spending team at that time.
Plus IIRC correctly Drury was an RFA at the time, and the concern was he would hold out.
If Drury knows that the Flames would be in the cup finals 12 months later, and that the team would be a cap team post lockout then maybe he doesn't ask to be traded.