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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
How do you know that none of the playoff teams would have traded for him?
Have you spoke to all of them? That's 16 more conversations than our GM had.
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you know that any of them would? Have you spoken to all of them and verified that ‘our GM’ never talked to any of them?
One of the most common complaints about Treliving is that he's always talking to teams about trades but never gets the deals done. Are you really going to turn around and tell me this was the one time that he never talked to anyone at all?
Several posters have spelled out the reasons why a contender would have had a tough time fitting Giordano on their roster. The cap is fixed, even mediocre teams are right up against it, most of the good teams are already into LTIR money and have zero cap room banked, the contract isn't expiring, and on top of all that, it's right before the expansion draft. As for non-contenders, they wouldn't be picking up rentals at all. That doesn't give anybody an incentive to offer a good price.
My hunch is that nobody was offering more than a B prospect or a mid-round pick. In that case I'd have said, ‘Screw it. I'm going to lose a different player anyway and this kind of return won't make up for that. Short-term I'd rather keep Giordano. Long-term I'd rather have Kylington than the steaming piles these other GMs are offering.’
If that's the case, he wasn't necessarily wrong, he was just SOL.