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Originally Posted by stang
This is a weird way to look at it IMO. UFA don't have an a cost attached. Only money, no picks or players in return.
And the team trading is giving up on the player they are trading as well.
On top of that if JT goes UFA I don't think you can say the team gave up on him. I'd bet he could write his own contract there. Sometimes its not up to the team when a player moves on.
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When I say cost I mean the contract they are signing. For example, Lucic is costing your team a lot.
Teams that do trades are getting something in return. Teams that don't re-sign a player are saying "he's not worth what he's asking". In rare cases they can't afford it, but the cases where they'd be willing to pay the asking price but the player wants to move on are pretty rare. Maybe JT is an exception, and I'd probably make an exception for signing him too, but even with the big contacts, good UFA signings are rare. In fact, it's the low level ones that work more often.