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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
Sorry, Adam. This is a pretty bad take. Openly expressing a desire to trade a player (i.e. putting them on the trade block) has consequences to the relationship between the player and the team, in real life at least.
That said, I'd be SHOCKED if you saw Ottawa move a guy like Strutzle, or New Jersey move Jack Hughes, for example.
Sure, everyone has "a price" but often times with a lot of these players that price is something that no one would ever be willing to pay.
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You can disagree, but it is not a bad take. Good GM's market players and talk about them all the time. Just because a trade doesn't happen right away doesn't mean it won't happen. Go back and watch the Red Wings documentary and hear how many times they talked about Chelios before he finally got moved.
Things change day to day, but there's only a handful of people who have team would never move unless the player asked for it.
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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
This is revisionist history. The Oilers didn't "blow up the team." Two years after Gretzky was traded they won a Stanley Cup, and then made two more conference finals.
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Just because a team didn't immediately blow up, doesn't mean it didn't happen. It happened after the 90 Cup, but that still happened. It's Coffey, Messier, Kurri, Fuhr, etc were all off that team in very short order which was likely unthinkable just a few years prior.