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Originally Posted by Bingo

He literally said Vancouver stepped up with a good offer so he shopped it back to teams that were interested.

Sounds the same to me.

Only difference I see is fans adding texture to a story without knowing anything in addition.

lol interesting study in interpretation. I took it as Vancouver got serious but details weren’t nailed down. I think at that point it is fine to shop around.

Spoiler!

"Obviously I've been communicating with teams all year, but probably after Saturday morning, I talked to [Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin] and they came with an offer,” Conroy said. “I think I talked to a lot of teams, and it was more, 'What are you looking for?' and 'What are you thinking about?' conversations. They threw a real offer at me, and I circled back with all the other teams just to kind of work through to see where we were at.

I think it’s a little different if the trade was basically done and then Conroy shopped around. Definitely shop around off the first round to middle round of negotiations but people have different ideas on it and some stay really sharp even if the deal is 99% there.