tigervixxxen
Optimism=Delusional
If some of you would believe Joe when he's speaking, more people would understand the situation. He's saying he doesn't have to trade Duchene and he's acting like a GM who doesn't want to trade him. It wasn't Sakic who was going to the Canes' table at the draft, it was Francis who was going to the AVS' table.
It's exactly like if a GM would call another team and ask for a good player they don't want to trade.
eg: someone would call Poile and ask for Josi:
- "Yeah he's not for trade"
- "But I want him"
- "Well make me an offer I can't refuse"
- "What do you want?"
- "*Asking for overpayment*"
- "I'll give you so, so and so"
- "Nope"
The insiders aren't talking every single day about a guy getting traded when it's at "blow my socks off with an offer" level. That's true for basically every single player.