I think I like it better this way. If we get him, we get him... same as before. But now we don't need to send any picks or players to Florida in exchange.
The trib article made it sound like Keenan sent out a "WTS forward" fax to everyone that was even vaguely involved in personnel decisions in the rest of the league, the press heard about it, the trib asked Riser if he had interest, and Riser just responded "he sent a fax, I sent a fax, there's nothing more to talk about".
That's not giving up anything that might piss people off. The desire to purge Huselius was hardly a secret.
