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Waddell: Making playoffs was worth steep price

By Mike Brophy
The Hockey News

Monday, January 28, 2008

There are those who will tell you the Atlanta Thrashers paid too high a price at last year's trade deadline to make the playoffs, only to be blasted out in four games. Not Thrashers GM Don Waddell, however. See, the Thrashers -- and let's face it, Waddell, too -- were at a very critical time in their history; needing desperately to make the playoffs, having finished on the sidelines in each of the first six years in franchise history. There is no way Waddell or the team could afford to make ...

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