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Originally Posted by FanIn80
That's not the point. We know he's gone, he would've re-signed by now if he wasn't.
The difference is in the return, and he literally said he doesn't want draft picks.
"...unless it's something that says, ‘OK, this is something — someone wants to step up’ and it's not draft picks..."
To me, that says he's looking to make a "now" trade. There are creative ways of getting better picks. Weaponizing cap space by bringing back expiring contracts, mulit-team deals, etc.
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These still all get you picks where you draft a Pelletier or Jankowski. And trading picks for cap space is really not done much these days die to the cap increase.
think he was talking about something like the Robertson trade that was rumoured at one point. But I have pretty good confidence Andersson's return will include picks.