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Originally Posted by dissentowner
It's Craig Button and it isn't close. He still knows F all about player value. Imagine if Iggy had Marc Savard throughout the prime off his career. Or we had Matty St Louis instead of not even qualifying him. Or giving away JS Giguere for peanuts. It's Button by a mile.
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It’s even worse than not qualifying him. He was under contract making league minimum in Canadian dollars (which was allowed at the time). Button actually paid him to go away. There was absolutely no downside to keeping him around.