'You want to know other teams better than they know themselves.' 'If there is one leak about a trade, I'll cut your head off.' 'You know teams are gonna shop your offer.' NHL executives explain how trades really happen ⤵️
Between January and the trade deadline is really where a team starts to dial in. … It’s not hard to see who might be available.We’d have five-, six-hour meetings some days when it got close to the deadline, just going over team and their whole system and identifying guys to kind of go, “OK, if you’re doing a deal withFinding out which players are availableYou want to know other teams better than they know themselves.
The reason we called Vancouver on [Jared] McCann is because one of my Vancouver-based prospect analysts called and said local market media with ties to the team were criticizing him and this meant he likely would be available despite being a first rounder on an entry-level deal who statistically had a strong season.”Unless a name’s already come out, it’s pretty rare that somebody will call you and say, “Do you have any interest in moving Podkolzin?” Let’s use him as an example.
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