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Originally Posted by Boreal
It doesn’t help that a replacement level player with zero leverage is asking for a trade.
He’s like an old pair of hockey pants. He’s worth more to the existing owner than he is anywhere else.
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I’ve never really understood this. If a bottom six player who is struggling to find a place on the team or find success feels like it might be time to move on, why is that somehow worse than if a guy like Tkachuk, or Monahan, or Andersson asks for a trade?
To me it seems like it should be the opposite. It’s also a different NHL than it was 20-30 years ago. Guys ask for trades or to “explore trades” all the time, and probably a lot more than we know about.