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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
The human element is important in the type of player you bring in.
But cutthroat management is what gets it done.
Vegas doesn't give a #### about any of that stuff and have a cup. Weegar and Huberdeau got blindsided by trades, and Huberdeau is yet to recover. Now Florida has a cup.
Sometimes you just have to do what is right for your team in the long run.
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No one is talking about keeping players because of sentiment. The human element people were talking about was keeping good older guys around for a bit, in order to give the younger guys a base to work from. Vegas and Florida made hard trades of established guys but they also didn't burn everything to the ground.
And the Florida trade wasn't about getting rid of older players just because. It was about them wanting Tkachuk that badly.