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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Nobody makes a good offer for a player until they’re on the market - it’s just a waste of time and resources to bring in the half-dozen GMs, scouts, capologists, analytics guys, etc it takes to formulate a deal if a player isn’t genuinely available. Kadri and Coleman are not on the market.
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Sorry, but this is a ridiculous take.
Each organization has TEAMS of people working on these things full time. The cap implications of every possible deal they might be considering, are already calculated, for instance - you don't sit around waiting until you're about to make a trade before saying "hey Bob, what are the cap implications if we trade XXXX?"
Teams know who may be available, and are scouting them regularly, discussing what each might cost, what the cap implications are, etc.
Constantly.