Houndsfan22
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- Mar 27, 2018
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All of these numbers are craziness! The OHL is first and foremost a business, and I remind everyone the NHL does not support the OHL as a direct farm team. Only two key ingredients exist, developing players towards an NHL career (the sole reason every player signs in the OHL) and maintaining positive cash flow. The Greyhounds cannot afford to miss the trade deadline without recouping a significant number of draft picks. Simply, it's the old blessing and curse concept in sports management of continuously competitive teams. A blessing because fans are spoiled with continuously competitive teams, but a curse because fans are spoiled with continuously competitive teams. My humble opinion, the Raddysh/Sambrook trade of last year was a very big gamble. It was Cup or problems for possibly 3+ seasons. Now its time to address the issue of limited draft picks and trading a few players easily fixes the problem. Without question trade Frost, Hayton and Villalta. Consider others if the environment looks promising.
As much as I hate to see my boy Frost go I agree with you. We can't afford to make anymore moves to be competitive against London in the playoffs and that's if Guelph doesn't knock us out should we meet with them. If we don't restock the draft picks we face a serious challenge in the coming years.