WASH/PIT

[kimmer]

Oh btw if mike is Thom's friend, he shud be ashamed of himself for this x2 already

[Handsome&FairMike]

Pretty sure Polak for Dumba is a fair swap

lol, pretty sure thats what I did...

Started with: Mac, Polak, Miller (7.3M)

Ended up with: DMack, DMoore (2.8M), Carrick, Dumba, Rattie, Fasching, Nedeljkovic

Sure best player is Macarthur, but I think he peaked last year, Polak is replaceable (excess on my team and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in the press box at some point this season), and I added two cheap, productive centres when I was well over cap (save 5M) and have fisher injured, along with some solid prospects...

Shiv's team was good, but it wasn't going to win and a lot of the guys are gonna be retired/out of a job sooner than later.

[tyler]

Jesus...Traded MacArthur + Polak for Myers. Then Myers + + for this...

You also pull off trades that no one else in the league can pull off with your whitty ways of convincing.

[kimmer]

Get me plekanek bro

[Shoalzie]

Pretty sure Polak for Dumba is a fair swap

lol, pretty sure thats what I did...

Started with: Mac, Polak, Miller (7.3M)

Ended up with: DMack, DMoore (2.8M), Carrick, Dumba, Rattie, Fasching, Nedeljkovic

Sure best player is Macarthur, but I think he peaked last year, Polak is replaceable (excess on my team and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in the press box at some point this season), and I added two cheap, productive centres when I was well over cap (save 5M) and have fisher injured, along with some solid prospects...

Shiv's team was good, but it wasn't going to win and a lot of the guys are gonna be retired/out of a job sooner than later.

You did fine. The best thing you have going is that you didn't move any of your top guys. The cap room obviously gives you some flexibility.

Shiv's approach seemed to be putting all value/productivity into his NHLers at the expense carrying little or no picks or prospects. He went with the classic "win now" model. His team isn't full of guys past their prime though...plenty of guys in their prime years but being a cap team, it probably made it tricky to make moves when there was an injury. He had to move guys off his active roster to make up for an injury. He had one of the most talented rosters but very little in organizational depth.

The term I've used a lot to how I'd like to build my team is to have "sustainability". You want a quality team at the NHL level while having prospects at varying levels of development so over the years, as guys grow into NHL talent, you backfill with more new prospects so you have a constant pipeline and you get to the point where making trades is a luxury, not a necessity. If you have a surplus of talent, you can obviously make moves and improve other areas. I want to get past the point where I'm trading good prospects just to fill out my NHL roster. I want to have a complete NHL team and then be able to utilize my prospects as a feeder system, not as currency.

[Tony]

Pavelski

[kyuss]

Jesus...Traded MacArthur + Polak for Myers. Then Myers + + for this...

only...the deal where he got Myers was far from the one you suggested.

The only problem is what he then traded Myers for, i.e. this deal.

The few times i've seen DUMBa play along the last 2 seasons he was crap.

[kyuss]

O_M don't need no trade buddy approval. He was clear Aug 7. Why the Dumba hate I don't know. It's risky either way, I hope it works out for both of us. Myers better live up to that 'potential' or his fucking 5.5 is an anchor.

Considering your request for Myers, you actually don't seem concerned at all about his deal becoming an anchor, lol

[kimmer]

LOL
miks deal call-out cuz mad. Haven't seen one in a while