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Originally Posted by jayswin
No thanks to a Toronto trade for a hot goalie prospect. The hype machine would ratchet right up to space if he was rumoured to be available, and the Leafs would wisely wait for the hype to push the cost up.
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Do you actually believe that fan-manufactured hype has any perceptible impact on the feelings of most NHL GMs? Sure, it works on the dim-wits of managers like Jim Benning, Craig MacTavish and Peter Chiarelli, but I venture to think the rest are basically impervious to such nonsense.