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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 I'll take Edwards history of being involved in almost everything both in oil and gas and with his hockey team over your jump to conclusions.
If the Flames saw this as an asset grab, and Florida either didn't grant permission to talk to the player's agents or you feared slowing down the deal that you wanted done, you don't hold up a deal you think you're going to win if you're happy with either result (players both sign, players don't sign but are flipped again)