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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
This is one of the reasons why Canadian teams struggle to win it all. For the most part, outside Toronto, they aren't a desirable market. So they have a smaller pool of trade targets, and turn their heads to overpaying free agents (which they shouldn't do).
It is what it is, but kinda sucks.
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It is one of the reasons I think the NHL should consider limiting the movement protection it hands out to players. In a cap world it is hard enough to make moves but when you have a huge chunk of a team having some form of trade protection that makes it even harder.
Canadian teams need to give this protection to bottom 6 forwards and 2nd/3rd pairing Dmen in many cases. In most of their leagues only the truly elite franchise level talents have trade protection.