‘”It sounds like when you’re trading a guy away that you’re trying to make the best of a bad situation for the organization, but that’s not really what it is,” Murray said. “I had probably a couple of places Jamie could’ve went to, very similar deals. The high sight of the Anaheim deal is the better one with the conditional pick turning into a second [round pick]. In another place, I could’ve got a third or a later pick at the time. I thought Anaheim was a great spot for him. He was going to play with, certainly, at least a good centerman and a good right winger. They’ve been a hot team, they’re a very good team. They’ve won a cup in the past and they have some very good players. I thought he’d fit there, I thought he’d be somewhat happy going to a team like that, which he and agent expressed after that they were.”‘
Murray reflects on the trade deadline
Source: WGR-AM