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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
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.
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Trade deadline is, for the most part, for rentals. Some teams might not believe in rentals, but this year there were a lot of guys that would be considered rentals (expiring contracts) moved, so I think it still holds true.
The draft and the off-season is when teams really shift into building for next year, so I think that’s where guys with term hold higher value for a lot of teams. Especially when it comes to playoff teams where they didn’t win but got a better idea of what’s missing to get them into the next round or whatever.
If there are no takers and the Flames still need to move on from guys like Toffoli or Backlund, then retaining salary for 2 months and shipping them to playoff teams for mid/late firsts is much easier to do a year from now.
I think guys with term just have a really limited market at the trade deadline unless you’re shopping them to teams that are already looking ahead to next year, in which case picks and prospects of value are harder to get.