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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
There was also a belief he refused to play in the AHL and was going to go back to Europe.
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He also would have required waivers to be sent to the AHL. There's a good chance he would have been claimed and the Flames would have ended up with nothing to show for him. At least by trading him, they got a draft pick out of it.
It's similar to why the Leafs traded Colborne to Calgary a couple years later.