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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
With teams that stand to lose one of 2-3 good players exposed, do we really expect them to be active in trades? Trading away one of those players ensures they'll lose two of them (one to trade, one to expansion) so it seems like if they are active, it'll have to be value coming back and value that they're actually able to protect.
Anaheim example: I've been thinking about it and I don't know why they would make a trade. It makes more sense to just lose whoever they lose.
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The Anaheim example is a bad one for your premise. Of course the key is Bieksa though, because if he is willing to waive his NMC they only stand to lose Vatanen.
In that case they might as well trade him for a return as opposed to lose him for nothing.