Lanny MacDonald*
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DR said:you mean how OTT was forced to trade Yashin for Spezza and Chara
or do you mean how VAN was forced to trade Pavel Bure for Ed Jovanvoski
or do you mean how CGY was forced to trade Fleury for Regehr and Niuwendyk for Iginla ?
or maybe you mean how EDM had to trade Hamrlik for Brewer or Carter for Dvorak.
oh wait, i think you mean the small market Tampa Lightining stole St Louis from CGY as a free agent ?
or maybe you mean how big market DAL signed Turgeon away from STL for 6m per season. How terrible for STL !
frankly, you probably meant how the big market Avalanche stole Rob Blake from small market LAK ? And they ONLY gave up Deadmarsh, Miller and a 1st rounder.
talk about bs ...
dr
You know, I really don't give a damn what the return was in each of those deals. The thing that urks me is that all of those deals were forced onto the teams and forced them to make deals they did not want to make. When you build your team around a certain asset and then are forced to trade that asset it hurts a helluva lot more than just in the lineup. It affects the whole organization. Bottom line is that none of those trades would have happened had the player's salary demands not been out of this world and been in a range that only three or four teams could afford them.