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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Friedman said himself said trading Hughes wasn’t a priority for them and that he wasn’t among the veterans they were looking at moving around a week before he got traded… and then we find out they’d been working on a trade since the summer and heavily shopping him for weeks.
So what I think people should do is sell their tickets for every home game for pennies on the dollar. That’s the only way to really show management they mean business! Enough “oh I might have to maybe think about maybe not supporting them with my season tickets MAYBE!” Nope. Sell your tickets for 10% of what they’re worth. That’ll show em. Have some guts ya cowards.
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In that case I'm buyin' (to those that take you up on your sage advice)! haha
Apart from Friedman, I think the media guys know they are being used and are OK with it. Elliotte seems to take this a bit more seriously, as if he were a journalist or something. He seems a bit surly when he misses a scoop.
So teams use the media to make us feel better, or send smoke signals to other GMs around the league. I bet every GM knows exactly what these signals mean.
"Not actively shopping player X" Probably translates into, 'he's gone any minute, get your best offers in now or hold your piece.'
Kind of related, I bet the only thing Conroy is mad about re: Maloney's interviews, is the performance bump Flames had afterwards.