Peter Chiarelli was informed that Bruins acquired Iginla

Jarome Iginla on the Calgary Flames bench. (Photo by Getty Images)

Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli thought that the Bruins had a deal with the Calgary Flames for Jarome Iginla, but later Iginla decided to go to the Pittsburgh Penguins instead.

Read the comments below by Peter Chiarelli on the failed trade.

According to general manager Peter Chiarelli, the Bruins were informed at approximately noon on Wednesday that they had acquired Jarome Iginla from Calgary. The Bruins' offer was Matt Bartkowski, Alexander Khokhlachev, and a first-round pick.

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"We relied on the fact that we had a deal," said Chiarelli of scratching Bartkowski and Khokhlachev and promoting Torey Krug. "Now, these things happen all the time, more than you know, about deals going south for whatever reason. We believed we had a deal. We operated on the premise that we had a deal. When things were silent, in my experience, when things go silent, things are usually going screwy from your end. And it was."

After telling Chiarelli the initial news, Calgary GM Jay Feaster said he wanted to give Iginla some time to consider the trade. Chiarelli agreed.

"I assume it's because of the magnitude of the player Jarome was for the organization, they wanted to give him some space on this," Chiarelli said.

When Feaster told Chiarelli the news that Iginla was going to Pittsburgh, the Calgary GM acknowledged something had happened to scotch the Boston deal. Chiarelli declined to share the nature of the event. Chiarelli said in trades of this significance, there are many moving parts, such as speaking with ownership.
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