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Originally Posted by getbak
All you have to do is look at the other players who were traded last summer to get an idea of what the trade market was.
Here's every trade that went down from May 1 - October 1 last year: https://www.capfriendly.com/trades?d...12019-10012019
There isn't a single trade that happened after the Kadri deal where I look at the players and wish the Flames had been able to get one of them.
The worst thing a GM can do is make a panic trade after another trade fell through just for the sake of making a trade.
That's how you end up trading a 1st and a 2nd round draft pick for Griffin Reinhart. Chiarelli was so focused on getting Hamilton from Boston either through a trade or an offer sheet that when Calgary got him, Chiarelli lost his mind and gave up nearly the same return for a guy who had played 8 NHL games at that point. |
Beauty example.
You cannot fault a GM for not making a trade when no trade can be made, and you can't fault him when he makes a much needed trade but the player he's trying to acquire invokes a NTC to stop it.
And you certainly don't want a GM forcing a trade out of desperation.