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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Gotcha. So Calgary should be all concerned about Florida's needs and maintaining the relationship with their players rather than worrying about their own situation and protecting their own interests. Based on the information from Walsh the damage was done because the deal was not disclosed to the player prior to the deal being completed. The Flames should be worrying about getting their due diligence completed and let Florida worry about theirs.
It is somewhat concerning that someone in the Flames organization did not reach out to the players or their representatives to test the waters before making the deal. Certainly lends support to this is Treliving's show and Edwards is not involved in these operational functions, because Edwards would serve you your nuts on a platter if you made a deal like this without completing your due diligence.
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I think you are over thinking this one. If it is the best deal on the table you take it and then get the details sorted. What's the upside of feeling out Huberdeau and Weegar through their agents when this was not on their radar at all. Does Treliving take a crappier return if they say no? Do you prefer Tarasenko and Scandella?
At the end of the day Flames got two valuable UFAs for one valuable UFA. I think there's zero chance they both get walked to UFA if they don't sign though. Tkachuk wanted out and he was gone on five days.