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Originally Posted by Chingas
I get that, but in theory they could have traded him to another team and received more assets rather that spending them to get rid of him. So the end cost would have involved losing another player.
Still a head scratcher to me that they are giving a pick along with maf.
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Yeah what you say makes sense. However the goalie market is a very limited one. Very few teams looking for a #1 and thus very few places MAF could go. You had CGY, VGK, WPG and ARI arguably unless I'm missing a team. If Fleury didn't want to go to CGY, ARI or WPG then where do you deal him? There's nowhere left. And that's assuming those teams all really wanted MAF and we don't know if that's the case either. Maybe ARI is looking to go younger in goal than MAF.
When you really think about where MAF could've been traded its pretty clear the market was extremely small. Throw his NTC in the mix and it looks like he couldn't be traded anywhere.