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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
You can't trade away relevant and producing players from a playoff roster at the trade deadline. The message it would have given to the team had that happened last year would have been that this year doesn't matter. We can't win so don't bother trying. Sure, the likelihood of us winning the Cup last year was low, but you cannot trade all players in the last or second last year of their contract. You have to keep some, acknowledging that you just might lose some of them.
29 teams each year are not going to win the Cup, and all 29 cannot be sellers. I know that's not the intent of your post, but you do have to keep some veterans, and acknowledge that you just might lose them some years. That's not necessarily bad asset management, it's just life in the NHL and pro sports.
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I agree, I wouldn't have traded them prior to the 2015 TDL either. The part you underlined states I would've liked to see them traded at the 2015 draft or at some point last off season, prior to the start of the season.
I wouldn't trade last season's success for anything, I just hope we are still rebuilding and not seriously considering extending guys like Hudler and Russell. Sadly, it appears the time to sell high on them has passed.