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Originally Posted by GioforPM
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.
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Oh I am not for shipping Backlund away just because.
I was talking about guys like Andersson getting shipped our, how we had Markstrom on the market last year.
I don't think Florida went into the offseason with the intent of moving Huberdeau, but they also didn't blink twice in trading him. Best friends with Barkov, #3 overall pick grew up in the franchise in the prime of his career after 115 points.