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Originally Posted by SebC
An odd deal - winning the trade (i.e. doing better than an offer sheet) requires either losing the player or overpaying him.
If Hamilton signs for less than $7.3M we overpaid. If he signs for more than $7.3M then we underpaid, but Hamilton might be overpaid. I'm guessing he comes in under, which means Boston won the trade - even if they would've lost had we made a similar offer sheet instead.
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But we can't look at 'winning ' a trade from the perspective of what the Bruins would b be compensated by with an offer sheet, as there's no guarantee that he would sign one with us, and that we would out bid other teams. We win a trade by looking at our team prior to the trade, and then after the eventual outcome. Regardless of what happens, pending a ridiculous offer sheet that the flames match, we're better off after than before. And it's argue that we win the trade because we will improve our positron through this trade greater than Boston improves (or in this case, crashes and burns)