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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
That may well be the case, let's assume it is true and owners are placing short term goals ahead and order that as a philosophy. Bras almost exclusively trades picks. His list of NHL player for NHL player trades is the following
Lucic trade
Lindholm and Hanifin trade
Lazar trade if you are being generous
3 player for player trades in 7 years.
Sutter may well have had the same orders, but he did manage to accumulate late round picks and traded fewer high round picks. But Darryl also made NHL player for NHL player trades. As a comparison Darryl made 20 NHL player for NHL player trades in 8 seasons. Those included some major moves as well (Langkow trade, Tanguay trade, Warrener trade, Simon trade, Jokinen trade, Phaneuf trade, Huselius trade). Not all his trades were good but he seemed to have the ability to trade player for player and not just draft picks for player.
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Treliving’s been willing to make player for player trades on at least a couple other times I can think of, but he got vetoed by a NTC.
I mean, it’s fine to say Sutter traded players for players, but he wasn’t very good at it, especially later on. Higgins and Kotalik for Jokinen and Prust?