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Originally Posted by AdequateRandomGaming
As a rule of thumb, I wait until I see the return for those players before I rate it as unrealistic. A player being on the block doesn't faze me in the slightest. It could just be the team gauging interest. It could be cap related. It could be the player committed a heinous off-ice crime that sent team harmony down the ****ter (god do I hate this feature with a passion).
If you just look at what the Hawks did recently, you have the Teravainen deal, but you also had the DeBrincat deal that didn't make much sense given they had just extended Seth Jones...why trade away a young 40 goal scorer when you are obviously rebuilding?
Then you can look at Arizona getting rid of a guy like Chychrun (granted he asked for a trade but had zero no-trading clauses so had very little power) for what seems to be very little...
And that's only looking at deals my Ottawa Senators were a part of...
You can find deals like that every year.
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Spot on.
You may also have to wait a year or two before judging a deal. There are trades where is looked lopsided at first, but balanced out over time (Ryan O'Reilly-Tage Thompson trade). Also, GM's make bad decisions (see Chuck Fletcher's career).