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Originally Posted by stemit14
Exactly. Well said. It's like he's admitting that he can't make a trade. People can knock sutter's phaneuf trade all they want... He knew it needed to be done and he got what he could as soon as he could... Addition through subtraction cause his effect on the team needed to end. That was just after a 9 game losing streak for the flames.
It was controversial at the time and who knows what other deals could have been had but THAT was a bold move... Now, years later, looking at phaneuf with the leafs it feels like it was a good deal just to remove him from the core of the organization. You can see the same thing from guys like hall, eberle, yakupov, Shultz, etc. in Edmonton but they don't have the guts to do what EVERYONE knows should be done.
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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah, that was the other thing and maybe goes to Bingo's point about them being Narcissists.
"Making trades is hard."
Well, yeah, but when your team is the league's personal turd sandwich you're going to have to take it in the teeth on a few trades.
Addition by subtraction, get rid of players for whatever you can get, draft well, scout well and move along.
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I wanted to expand on my point as well so I've included my previous post.
Sometimes you have to make trades that make you look like an idiot but you may have to do it anyways and their egos wont let them.
You have to evaluate trades on all of it's merits to determine if its a good move and some trades that look like a big crap burger on the surface of things have more merit than it appears.
I know we're not all enthused about the return for Phaneuf or Iginla or Bouwmeester, but there is so much more to those trades than just the assets in return. Theres cap space and the inevitable addition by subtraction.
The addition in the Iginla trade was just getting rid of him so the whole organization could turn the page and move on. Sometimes just getting rid of someone is a slam-dunk in and of itself.
Hypothetical:
Trade Taylor Hall right now. I firmly believe no one would be very impressed with the return.
But then the GM can walk into the dressing room and put the smoking gun down on the table and calmly tell his players to go out there, get to work and do their jobs, because if they dont theres more bullets where that one came from.
Would the Oilers then be a better team? I think so.