sharski
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2 lazy 2 look it up but I do recall GMMG making some comments after the trade that implied he had to work within certain restrictions from Hasso, so I assume that partially meant Hasso could only stomach retaining so much on a player who could have potentially been the missing piece on winning ANOTHER cup for PittsburghI'm sure that Hasso limited the retention, I also agree with the posters who have said that a) PIT didn't have much to give on roster or in the prospect pool and b) they probably wouldn't have paid future draft picks for the extra retention. Sure, we could have retained 100%, but is a GM going to give up their next 4-5 first round picks for a free EK? IN theory it sounds good but in practice there's a realistic overlap in a negotiation and it's not clear there was a much bigger return PIT was willing to pay for more retention. Any claim there could have been us pure speculation, so who cares, is my opinion.
So far the trade looks pretty good.
Also maybe Hasso had no choice but to establish dominance in fixing a previous mistake where he let his GM go a little too far in the past