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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
As a GM on another team, when you see a guy putting up 115 points but his team isn't rushing to get a deal done, you should maybe think why. Our wizard GM panics and gets blinded by the point total not looking at the players 1 dimensional game. How do you let a GM who you haven't extended pull the plug on this size of a trade.
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The whole braintrust weighed in on the deal. Multiple people involved - Treliving, Conroy, Maloney, Bean - have attested to the discussions around the deals and the direction of the team. There were only a handful of deals on the table, and the Flames brass - almost certainly including Edwards - rejected the rebuild option (which is what the Hurricanes were reportedly offering). That left only two real offers - the Panthers and Blues - and by all accounts the Florida deal was far better.
I know it's a lot easier to scapegoat when you imagine that trades are just two GMs cutting deals on the phone together. They're not. The major decisions the Flames brass have made over the last few years have been collective. And most of the people who made them are still at the helm of the team.