If you are a team in the West you are thinking about how you match up against the Kings, Hawks and Stars. So you are trying to get bigger and/or faster. Hudler does neither. So I suspect the marketin the west was non existant.
He fits better in the east, but even then - he isn't a guy that is hard to play against, so as teams are loading up, he isn't necesarily the type that everyone wants to add.
There are reasons why Ladd fetches so much more. He's the type of guy GMs love to add.
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