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Originally Posted by transplant99
Making the "big" moves now limits the amount of teams that can both afford and desire JG or any of the big slried guys.
Waiting until there is a larger demand for services leads to better compensation. Supply and demand and all that.
Unless there is a deal that you dont think can be matched, or surpassed, in the off season, you hold on to your assets and maximize them when you have more team interested/able to add them to their rosters.
Its just logical to do so.
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This really hasn’t proven itself out when it comes to quality of return. Players getting traded in the off-season don’t seem to return anything more significant than those moved at the trade deadline.
Jason Zucker was going to return Frolik and a 1st (“and likely more” per Boomer at the time) at the deadline, he then returned a 1st, Galchenyuk, and Addison.
I think Giordano and Gaudreau, with money retained, are the most valuable they likely will be at this trade deadline...but that would of course require the Flames being willing to retain money (...which hey, just spend money on retaining in a trade and then don’t sign a free agent you have to buy out).