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Originally Posted by browna
Don't forget the Oilers offered to trade Brule to the Kings for Smyth, but Brule wasn't cleared to play due to concussion. So the Oilers offered up Colin Fraser, who the Oilers doctors said was almost ready to return from injury...while Fraser said he needed another surgery on his foot to even think about playing.
That sequence of events provoked this line from Dean Lombardi, Kings GM:
The bottom line for me, I would have rather invested my money with Bernie Madoff
than invest in Edmonton’s word,” Lombardi told the
Times
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What a wild story. I can't imagine any other team would ruin their reputation by doing something like that.
Here's the original article:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/blo...an-smyth-trade