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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Why does Yzerman not give Treliving more than 15 minutes for sign off considering the deal came several days before the deadline. Rumor screams orange Julius to me.
Flames faces Bishop the night before the deadline so I can't see that ruining the deal.
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This is unimaginative on your part. There are so many moving parts involved in a trade now, which is one of the main reasons you don't see many of them during the year.
You're talking about a player with a 6 million dollar cap hit and an 8 team no trade clause, a franchise dealing with a hard cap as well as a budget, Calculating injury reserve and overages and managing call ups on a day to day basis to maximize financial flexibility.
Trades are freakin' hard to pull off and the bigger the cap hit the harder it is to do a deal. Tampa at the time needed all the flexibility they could muster to simultaneously still try to push for a playoff spot while positioning themselves in the best possible way for free agency and next season.
Deadlines are deadlines, you either meet them or you don't.