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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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.
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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
He wasn’t because the only reason we have Lucic and his awful contract is because of Neal. A world where we never sign Neal we would never have had Lucic and we would have had an extra 5.25 million less whatever the replacement cost is for what Lucic brings to the team (say a million). Extra 4.25 million bucks signs them longterm in all likelihood.
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And if we never have Lucic\Neal we probably sign Tkachuk long term instead of the bridge deal we gave him.