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Originally Posted by Hackey
Exactly. They likely didn't even flush out any of the other deals. Would a single GM in the league not take Tkachuk over Kyrou if given the choice?
Maybe St Louis offered a weaker deal as a starting point but that's how negotiations typically work. I'm not sure why we would assume that was their best and final offer. How many negotiations close on the initial offer?
Zito really played that situation perfectly.
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There was little time in that case. Tkachuk had to be traded before arbitration, which if memory serves me correctly, was only days away. Every team knew there was a hard deadline. If they were screwing around with low ball offers, and I doubt they were. That would’ve been on them.