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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
A few connected folks on the board, including Bingo, had heard it was close.
I imagine it would have been a similar deal with a 1st packaged to a team like Arizona or Anaheim to take on Lucic.
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I don't remember his exact words, but in the press conference for the Monahan trade, Treliving basically confirmed the rumours that they were working on a Lucic deal but it fell through, so they pushed to get the Monahan deal done.
Based on what he said, combined with the rumours coming out of Boston the weekend prior, and the fact that the only way the Flames could have freed up the necessary cap space was to move either Lucic or Monahan, you could put 2 and 2 and 2 together to figure out that the Lucic rumours had some truth behind them.