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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
This exactly. If he trades Markstrom for a bag of pucks - its a different scenario where you don't need to make the trade because you can just keep the player. All of these other trades - they have to make them by the deadline or get nothing. He could just say that the offers aren't good enough and keep Hanifin, but that's just cutting off your own nose to spite your face.
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Yep ...
Markstrom bid from Jersey vs any other bids.
Markstrom value in the summer if they turn down the jersey bid (if there is one).
Markstrom's place next year.
The goalie market in the summer.
All decisions that require a GM to make a call. If you get more calls right then wrong (it's painfully close to 50% for most GMs) you are in the upper half to third of GMs in the league.
Last night was the culmination of nine months of assessing a market and dealing with restrictions, and facing a deadline in 40 hours.
You take the best you can at some point ... with the only "call" being last night vs what he thinks would transpire in the next day and a half.
Saying he was bent over or got worked is just infantile fan rage.