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Originally Posted by Royle9
Its oddly strange how it went from a sellers market 2 weeks ago, to a buyers market the week of the deadline....
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That's the nature of markets. The longer you wait and the more sellers that enter or exit the market the market shifts and shifts quickly. Calgary owned the market for the longest time and I think Conroy felt they would always own the market, right up to the deadline. I think he navel gazed a bit and didn't keep an eye on the standings. As a result other teams looked at where they were in the standings and whether they wanted to push for the mushy middle and made smart decisions to take advantage of the seller's market. Unfortunately, multiple teams with great assets entered the market at the exact same time and that dramatically shifted the market to where it became a buyers market because of the quality assets available.
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If the offers are underwhelming, there's really no rush to move either guy outside of giving yourself more room for dropping in the standings, but that's not guaranteed anyway. I really hope we didn't wait too long.
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To me, it appears he waited too long. He should have got this done before the Olympic break and not allowed other teams that period to think and strategize. That allowed multiple teams to shift their commitment to the season and enter the marketplace with their better assets, devaluing ours and making deals less likely to happen. I think he over-played his hand. Hopefully that is wrong and he manages to move out a number of players for good assets, but there are just so many more options out there now that teams have more choice and can probably get better returns for less.