JD1
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- Sep 12, 2005
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Botchford is talking out of his &%% - he doesn't have a clue what was offered by who. What we do know is this - not one team was willing to part with their top prospect. Tampa wouldn't trade Sergachev, Dallas wouldn't trade Heiskanen, Vegas wouldn't trade Glass, etc. Why? Because Karlsson was and is a rental. He's an amazing, blue chip rental, but right now he's a rental. That significantly limited the return we could get. (We got some protection built in to the SJ trade in case he signs there, which was smart.) If Botchford says we got a better offer, then he should either give some details or zip it.
on top of being a rental he was coming off probably the worst year of his career. injury related of course that impacted the return because there is risk involved.
on top of those two things he's also involved in a pretty damn strange he said she said entanglement and who knows how that ends. for sure that impacted the return also.