seventieslord
Student Of The Game
Trading brings out the worst in posters. The bickering about them instead of the appreciative and informative discussions about players and the history of hockey. The whole thing becomes a petty, selfish exercise overly obsessed on competiveness and winning in the playoffs when team building is supposed to be beside the point, the playoffs a fun offshoot instead of the point of it all, the draft about thinking through the history of the game, seeking to appreciate to the proper degree various contributors. A trade-free draft (or at least a trade-free conference to show the relative saneness and difference) was going to be the first step on the road to returning to the History board as a subforum there. Trading just shows the ATD subforum belongs where it is, with the games forum and all the jostling gamesmanship that goes on in fantasy competition. Oh well. So be it. 59% of us wanted it this way. We get what we deserve.
I personally wouldn't have it any other way.
It's kinda hard to have appreciative and informative discussions about the players and the history of hockey when the draft has not even started yet.
I have worked very hard to put all mentions of trades in a separate thread so that it's not so "in your face" for the people who were opposed to trading, and still I get a post like this, in the trade thread, before the draft has started.
There's nothing petty or selfish about trading or about what Mr. Bugg in particular is trying to do. He's actually a perfect example of why a no-trade draft would be utterly boring - now we get to see what happens to a team built on three top-40 players (assuming he pulls it off) and we also get to see two teams without a franchise player but assumedly stronger depth beyond that. Much better than 40 vanilla teams.
Trading does not make this any less of an important exercise in the appreciation of hockey history. I'm sorry that you feel that way though. I know you don't really think this draft is no better than some fantasy draft, or you wouldn't be here. What trading does is make this fun for a lot of people, and more interesting for a lot of others. We're allowed to have fun, right?
If it's so bad then perhaps more than 41% will vote against trades next year. So far, with the draft not even on yet, it's really hard to put forth a convincing argument that trades have had a negative impact.