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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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I believe that Toronto star/prospects tend to benefit from local and national media going crazy and driving huge hype around the idea of a significant Leafs player being available.
And yes, I do believe this factors in league wide with GM's, to what degree I don't know.
*I didn't mean to imply that fan manufactured hype would matter if that's how it came off, just media.