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Originally Posted by Knut
These are human beings we are dealing with. There is also the idea of creating a perception of your organization to outside players. This comes into play with American prospects signing, UFA signings, RFA signings, players waiving NMC's and even Coaches deciding where they want to go. Look at how much Farabee and Frost talked about their gold star treatment coming to Calgary.
Not dealing Kadri for magic beans now might lead to downstream benefits when it comes to other players coming to the organization.
This is not NHL 2025 here.
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This team was also in the playoff mix and played really well down the stretch. They went toe for toe with St Louis, but lost out on reg wins. But the tank crew has it in their heads that the team was more like a 76 point team who refused to move players
So it's hard to trade your best players at that time. Now if the team is 10 points out of the playoffs this coming season, I do think they might start asking some veterans with value about how they'd feel about accepting a move.
I mean how many drama queens cried about how badly Conroy and Edwards screwed the team forever by not trading Markstrom at the previous deadline? This likely plays out the same. When the timing is better the team likely makes it's moves with the veteran players.