Yesterday, El Seldo said to me, "Blueprint is going to have a special segment on Dave Keon, you'll have to read up on Leafs history!" ... So I did, of course, and in the process of researching I came across this quotation about Keon's 1975 contract negotiation:
"From all I’m told, he really wanted to stay," said Bill Watters, who’d become a high profile agent in the 1980s and Leaf assistant general manager. "It wasn’t an unreasonable contract request from Dave, nothing preposterous in terms of money. I don’t know why Harold [Ballard] (low-balled). Perhaps he was getting advice from someone else.