“Now,
what the reality of not just the St. Louis Blues is, they have
no-trades. It’s a 50-50 relationship. It’s not 100-0 or 0-100,
meaning they can say, ‘I don’t like the direction of the team.
Trade me,’ and we’ll say, ‘No, we’re not going to trade you.
We’re not getting what we like. So your job is to come and work.’
Or we could say, ‘We’re going to trade you,’ and they could
say, ‘How about no, I’m going to stay.’ It’s a 50-50
relationship right now. We’d love to work together with them, we’d
love that they can achieve their goals and we can achieve our goals
whether it’s together or apart, but neither side owns the ultimate
hammer in that. I don’t want to just say this is a Parayko-Thomas
thing, this is anybody that’s got a no-trade clause in the league,
has the same relationship with their manager and it is 50-50.”
