On my team, with its "No one over 30" policy, I had to trade Donovan. So what I did was package him with Peter Sejna for Alexander Frolov and a 3rd rounder from TB (who I had previously traded Frolov to with a 2nd rounder for Brad Richards). I then traded the third rounder to Detroit for Niklas Kronwall. So what the trade ended up amounting to was
Brad Richards and Niklas Kronwall for Sean Donovan, Peter Sejna (neither of whom were getting playing time) and 2 picks
the secret here is not to care about your draft picks for the first year or two until you get a real strong core of proven young players. the average rating on my team is around 86 i'd guess, not one player is over 27
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