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Slava · 12-01-2009, 12:32 PM

First let me say, its great that you guys put your heads together to try to come up with something to increase trading.

I guess I'm kind of on the fence about this suggestion. I don't really have any major UFA's coming due this season so it really makes little impact here. Sure I stand to lose Jagr for nothing....but I've been trying to move the guy for months and no one is particularly interested at his price anyway. While this might help to move some bodies around the league I'm not sure that you'll see large assets moving for UFA's either.

Seems to me a case where at the deadline a guy looks at Jagr (to use my own example) and says "I could use him for the run and then I know he is done, so how about a 5th". I'm screwed there....I have no real option to re-sign him, and my return for losing him is now a 5th! Might be a little extreme, but seriously I don't know how exaggerated that is?

Also about the teams not having a lot of cheese room- in my case this was by design. If I could do this over I would've moved Jagr and kept a better piece to trade with little/no cheese room left. That being said I was slashing the budget hard here; I had some high priced players here and well before the season began I knew that my cheese room was going with them to get myself under the cap and have money going into next season.

All of this being said, people just have to be somewhat creative when trading. I could still move Jagr (to use that example again). Sure he has a $10 mill price tag, but that just means I take something decent and an expensive bag of pucks back. There are plenty of bad contracts out there, and with some creativity these things will get done. People have been very busy this fall. I am hopeful and expecting that once christmas gets closer and people have a little more time then we'll see them on CP a little more and more deals will be made.

12-01-2009, 12:32 PM	#6
Slava Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Calgary, Alberta Exp:	First let me say, its great that you guys put your heads together to try to come up with something to increase trading. I guess I'm kind of on the fence about this suggestion. I don't really have any major UFA's coming due this season so it really makes little impact here. Sure I stand to lose Jagr for nothing....but I've been trying to move the guy for months and no one is particularly interested at his price anyway. While this might help to move some bodies around the league I'm not sure that you'll see large assets moving for UFA's either. Seems to me a case where at the deadline a guy looks at Jagr (to use my own example) and says "I could use him for the run and then I know he is done, so how about a 5th". I'm screwed there....I have no real option to re-sign him, and my return for losing him is now a 5th! Might be a little extreme, but seriously I don't know how exaggerated that is? Also about the teams not having a lot of cheese room- in my case this was by design. If I could do this over I would've moved Jagr and kept a better piece to trade with little/no cheese room left. That being said I was slashing the budget hard here; I had some high priced players here and well before the season began I knew that my cheese room was going with them to get myself under the cap and have money going into next season. All of this being said, people just have to be somewhat creative when trading. I could still move Jagr (to use that example again). Sure he has a $10 mill price tag, but that just means I take something decent and an expensive bag of pucks back. There are plenty of bad contracts out there, and with some creativity these things will get done. People have been very busy this fall. I am hopeful and expecting that once christmas gets closer and people have a little more time then we'll see them on CP a little more and more deals will be made.