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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
And that clearly is a disadvantage for those teams facing those realities.
In a cap world, trades are tough enough to complete. Now if you have a bunch of players in the league who won't come to your team - that's a problem.
We hear just today of another such example of Manson not being willing to get to Winnipeg.
No player is rejecting a trade to New York, Chicago, Vegas, Florida, LA, Toronto etc.
Must be nice.
Ultimately you can only play the hand you are dealt but when we consider why Canadian teams don't win cups - this is part of the reason.
They don't have the same opportunity to improve - via free agency and increasingly even via trade.
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All true. Which is why small-market Canadian teams need to build patiently through the draft. The problem is owners who refuse to recognize that logic.
I know Winnipeg hasn’t won anything, but at least they seem to have an ownership and management group who recognize the handicaps they labour under and how they need to operate to try to find long-term success.