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Originally Posted by New Era
Said every researcher who went and tried to prove a methodology wrong without first understanding the study.
Yet we hear Treliving talking about giving up assets to protect marginal players on his team. One thing you can count on in the NHL is GMs falling in love with their players and believing they are worth more than they really are, and then willing to do dumb things to protect the assets they love. So yes, it will happen.
It's a fluke that turned into an NHL powerhouse. You can bet your ass that a GM who is building an expansion team is going to do everything in their power to replicate what the Golden Knights did. The way the rules are set up, it is in the expansion team's favor for it happening again.
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You just need to know your players. You can’t pull a Florida and give up quality players like Marchessault and Reilly Smith or screw up like Columbus by letting go a young kid who’s about to pop like William Karlsson.
This is where you lean on on your pro scouts to know what they’re doing and make the right.....oh wait.....rely on our pro scouts? Yeah we’re screwed; the Seattle Kraken are going to completely clown us aren’t they? Major extortion incoming.