That's the thing that everyone needs to accept. Overpaying to get a big time guy isn't an issue (within reason, obviously). Yes, you want to win every trade and you want to get the best deal possible but if there a stud player we want and the price is firm at something that is lopsided, as long as it doesn't involve dealing away a key cog for the future you do it. Yes if they want ten first round picks the answer would be no, but there is definitely an overpayment in there somewhere that would be a good move long term even if you "lose" the trade on paper.
Except they'd STILL take Yakemchuk at 4! LOL!
Flyers don't. The President said so.
They do. If the Flyers are forced to make the decision (any of the teams for that matter) and they keep him, they are condoning rape…if they decline and he is proven innocent and allowed to play, they give up a #1 goaltender and get nothing in return. Then a team can just sign him for nothing, giving an innocent person a 2nd chance.
He won’t be proven innocent. If he’s found not guilty, no team is going to want him anyway. Not after the sordid details of the gb are laid out in excruciating detail.
Risto has zero value at the moment. Probably any moment. How many games he miss at the end of the season? Just had surgery. No team is taking that without seeing him come back healthy for starters.
There really isn't anything you can read into that they say. No GM is going to come out and say "WE WANT TO RIP OFF EVERY OTHER GM" when they speak to the media. They're all going to say, "we want to make the team better and have a fair trade" blah blah blah. There is zero chance that Briere or whomever would turn down a trade that was too beneficial to them or would offer more than they think would get a trade done just because (sometimes, obviously that may be different if there is some kind of bidding war or time constraint they may come out strong to ensure it gets done).
Well you can interpret it your way, I will interpret it my way based on how the Flyers do things.
I'm not interpreting anything I'm ignoring it. But that isn't how they do things. Of course they have made bad trades, but they have also made good trades. You can't just ignore the good things they have done and pretend like it either didn't happen or was an accident and then say all the bad things were intentional or they are incompetent 100% of the time. There's plenty of things to complain about here, but pretending that they intentionally make bad trades or whatever it is you are saying they do, is not one of them.
Only thin g I am saying is what the esteemed President said himself.
www.thefourthperiod.com
