Future Considerations

[Jersey Fan 12]

Question I've had for years - is there a time limit as to when they need to be met?

And are these ever made public?

 

[Suntouchable13]

I don’t think they have to be met. Future considerations could also literally be nothing. Or buying the other GM a beer sometime. It’s frivolous.

 

[ManofSteel55]

Question I've had for years - is there a time limit as to when they need to be met?

And are these ever made public?

Future considerations isn't really anything. It just means "you did me a solid this time, I will get you back next time". There's no value or time assigned to it. Heck, I wouldn't be shocked if there were times where "Future Considerations" was referring to who picked up the tab at the next dinner, or something like that.

 

[STL fan in MN]

If the return was real, it’d be specified in the trade. Future Considerations is a polite way of saying a player was traded for a bag of picks. Nothing.

Maybe there’s some unwritten agreement like one GM will but the first round of beers or pay for a round of golf the next time they get together but yeah, don’t expect any sort of asset coming back in a Future Considerations trade.

 

[KaprizovSaveUs]

Value of future considerations: Nothing

 

[cbjthrowaway]

elvis merzlikins, one-for-one! (let me dream)

 

[First Line]

They don’t actually need to do anything , they just need to consider doing it

 

[MartyOwns]

They don’t actually need to do anything , they just need to consider doing it

what if they just think about considering it?

 

[GOilers88]

what if they just think about considering it?

I was under the impression just thinking about something is considering it.

 

[thewookie1]

Supposedly had Tim Murray still been the GM in Buffalo upon Vegas' expansion draft; George McPhee was to waive the 5th rounder we paid to protect Ullmark. This being do to the previous trade made with Murray while he was in Washington where a player outright retired to avoid going to the tanking Sabres.

 

[MartyOwns]

I was under the impression just thinking about something is considering it.

i think you're talking about contemplating something. if you contemplate thinking about consideration, that's a whole separate conversation.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

I'll give you an answer to be named later.

 

[GOilers88]

i think you're talking about contemplating something. if you contemplate thinking about consideration, that's a whole separate conversation.

This is getting too deep for my peasant brain

 

[Eegs]

I don’t think they have to be met. Future considerations could also literally be nothing. Or buying the other GM a beer sometime. It’s frivolous.

Trade accepted!!

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

It doesn't always mean nothing, I seem to recall Rybon Regher being future considerations inthe trade that sent Theo Fluery to Colorado.

But it often means nothing

 

[JPT]

I've heard Future Considerations involved in countless trades over the past 30 years. Just how old is this guy?

 

[n8]

I think I've seen - maybe once or twice ever - where future considerations eventually turned into a player going back the other way but these were always AHL level players so for some here, they will go "so yeah, nothing" which isn't nothing but hard to argue that it is something. Just thing.