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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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?"
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It's gotten to be like military planning. There are people at NATO HQ and in the Pentagon who spend their time planning and wargaming every conceivable scenario, even the ones that appear impossibly silly. There is zero chance the U.S. will go to war with, say, Latvia, but
somebody has worked out a detailed operational plan for an invasion of Latvia – or else they're not doing their job. Similarly, I suspect every team in the NHL has a starting offer already planned for snagging McDavid in case the Oilers lost their marbles and decided to deal him.
(Of course the plans never work out just so. As Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. But you don't win the fight, or the trade, if you haven't got a decent plan going in.)
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Originally Posted by Bingo
And the never seen before level of parity is likely slowing things down considerably.
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This is true, and vexing!
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Originally Posted by Bonded
Or one day a GM wakes up and decides to make an awful trade without really shopping them/ The Flames have had a few
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GMs who do that tend to get fired soon after. It's a career wrecker.