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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
My questions with stuff like this are:
- who says they didn’t explore moving Toffoli/Backlund?
- why was this trade deadline (where teams generally gear up for the playoffs, less so for the next season) so important, especially given the lack of forwards with term moved?
- why wouldn’t guys like Toffoli/Backlund have more value to teams building for next year in the offseason, or more value to teams building for the playoffs next TD as expiring contracts?
I think it’s easy to say “they should’ve done _____” but I haven’t seen many reasons why it had to be now vs later nor any evidence they didn’t try to do anything.
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You’re right, I don’t know they didn’t put these guys on the market. Their names were not out there at ALL though, which is unusual, and the sense from the media insiders was the flames were shocked at the outcome of their season and awaiting results as late as the Leafs game for their deadline approach.
So nothing definitive, but the vibes coming out of the flames camp were those options were not seriously explored.
I don’t understand the ‘term’ piece with these players as reasons they weren’t moved. How many times have we heard Treliving say he doesn’t believe in acquiring rentals? Is he alone in the league in this thinking, or perhaps that is also attractive for other teams who are being asked to move futures/picks? Especially with reasonable cap hits, the extra term for these players is a plus.