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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The issue IMO isn't moving the assets...it's moving the assets for 3rd liners and guys that aren't there long term.
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I agree with that, up to a point.
From a GM's perspective, paying assets for pure rentals can actually be preferable to acquiring players with term. It means he can load his team up to the last dollar of available cap without putting the team in cap jail for future seasons.
Unfortunately, the guys you really want to add to a contender at the deadline are seldom available, because they are already playing for other contenders. So you end up dumpster-diving and paying a 1st plus for a third-line forward… or, like Tampa a while back, paying almost a full sleeve of draft picks for a player who doesn't move the needle. It's wasteful, but it's part of the cost of business when you're trying to push a contender over the top.