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CanadianRangers

CanadianRangers
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Forum: Armchair-GM2 avr. 2019 à 21 h 42
Sujet: Trading away half the team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Sagecoll</b></div><div>1) I kept all my 1sts and top prospects. Including a potential lottery pick this year.
2) I brought the average age of my forwards to 22
3) I brought the average age of my dmen down to 24
4) The majority of the team is under team control for at least 3 years
5) I'm not sure if this is a contending team next year (though looking at the analytics I'd submit that it's easily the best team in the Metro) It's certainly a contending team in 2 years with the growth of Chytil/Kravtsov and the addition of Miller/Lundkvist
6) I don't think it's realistically possible to do better without compromising on points 1-4</div></div>

Looking at it again, I can see your side of it and you're right, it is a series of very good trades. I guess I personally don't think any of the returning players are anything special, but that's just me.
Forum: Armchair-GM27 mars 2019 à 14 h 56
Sujet: Random
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jiannuccilli</b></div><div>Find me one example of a past trade in which an actively rebuilding team traded a young regular roster player (with retained salary) for a terrible cap hit with 1 year left on the deal.</div></div>

I don't think it's unusual at all for a rebuilding team to take on a cap dump in exchange for a prospect or a pick. In fact, I believe it's quite common. After all, it wouldn't make much sense for a contending team to take on cap dumps. This also applies for retained salary too. When you're a rebuilding team, money doesn't really matter all that much so if you have to use some of it to obtain more prospects and picks, that's not a problem.

As for the specific situation you outlined, I don't think there are many trades where all those conditions are met. It's probably hard to find any trade that has both a cap dump for 1 year and a salary retained on a U26 player. That being said, it's not that unrealistic, and isn't that the point of the armchair-GM? To create trades that you would do if you were a team's GM?

Personally if I was the GM of the Rangers, I wouldn't have any problem doing this kind of trade. A U26 player won't necessarily be a big piece of our future core so trading him, even with retained salary, isn't that big of a deal. Also if the return included a first round pick as well as a prospect, I would gladly take on a short-term cap dump to complete the trade.