Eric Francis Article: “I was never holding the Flames hostage.” Noah Hanifin wanted to set the record straight on the parameters surrounding his departure from Calgary as he couldn’t ignore the narrative he felt tainted his final weeks with the team.
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#15!? Somebody boo this man.
He should be booed worse than Johnny.
At least Johnny wanted to sign with us, until Meridith told him no. We basically gave Hanifin a blank cheque and he gave us the middle finger.
Conny did the best he could. If Noah was truly hijacking the process like some people reported I doubt he’d have ended up in Vegas, where it seems like he’s unsure about signing. Not gonna get too bent out of shape about Noah, especially if he truly just wants to raise a family in/around Boston
Sounds like the Flames need to set up a matchmaking service for our players with local women.
Maybe we go a step further and ensure Calgary women (who want to raise families close to home) are marrying NHLers from all teams
[*achoo* I’m sorry I’m allergic to bullshit](https://youtu.be/O9xRhwmHBBE?si=sPXyQnUhd6nDpZy9)
Yeah sure…. Every single insider had it wrong Gimmie a break
Stand up and own it
i’m sorry but if he and his agent were telling teams that he wouldn’t be willing to resign with teams the flames were negotiating with then it definitely seems like he had them handcuffed
“i didn’t hold them hostage, i gave them 3 teams with 0 assets, and told them i only wanted to be traded there. i don’t get where all this hostage talk comes from”
It sounds a lot like this whole story was a nothingburger and all the buzz about Hanifin’s camp screwing us over was fabricated by the media. Huge surprise.
Multiple teams were interested in offering more for Hanifin with an extension, but Hanifin wasn’t interested in signing with any of them. The only team he was open to signing with who would trade for him was Tampa, and they obviously had some lowball offer since we had no leverage. So Conny took the best deal available and traded him to Vegas as a rental.
Making Hanifin out as some villain here is stupid as hell. We can’t force him to sign an extension wherever we send him, and it’s not his fault that only one team he’s interested in as a UFA was willing to trade for him.
The lady doth protest too much.
The is the same type of reporting that was done with the Markstrom rumors. Someone speculates, everyone else reports it as truth.
I sort of lost some of the details in all the media fog, but who was the first to report that Noah was the one handcuffing the Flames to his short list?
Eight-team no trade clause is reasonable, and telling the Flames which specific teams he was interested in signing with is doing them a favour. It allowed the Flames to shop for a better deal with one of his preferred teams, who apparently weren’t interested enough to make that better deal. That’s not his fault.
I doubt he did anything more than what a UFA has a right to do- provide a few teams that he’s willing to sign with.
If I were in his shoes, I would have done the same thing.
Hanafin earned the right to go wherever he wants as a UFA, who can get mad about that? He told the flames he wouldn’t resign so we could trade him and not get shafted. Hanafin having a list of teams he was willing to extend with is completely reasonable.