While it's true we have a harder time signing FA it's not like we can't sign players to fill roles. You are overstating how big an issue we have there. This summer was most likely due more to the shitstorm of a year we had last year then the market.
Most years Chevy doesn't have that hard of a time filling depth roles with external acquisitions.
An honest question to you, do you want this team to ever win? Or do you juat want to try to play the asset management game no matter where the team is at in its development. There are always going to be players who don't want to stay long term here, you need to balance their on ice contributions vs. What they can bring in a trade.
Trouba provided 6 years of excellent value to this franchise at an incredibly favorable cap hit while also returning a second pairing offensive dmen and 1st round pick. So the Jets got a solid future package as well as good on ice results that helped the team make a massive run that put a lot of $$ in the teams pockets and helped establish the group as a legit annual playoff team. There is a lot of economic value to a franchise by being a consistient playoff team. At the end of the day the goal is to win and make money and he helped then there.
Also you need to take into account how some of these moves impact the thoughts of the players in the room. If you keep selling off your great players early because they have indicated they are leaving as FAs good luck getting the Helle's, Scheifele's etc willing to commit to the franchise long term. "OH sorry Mark I know we have a great team and a chance to win but we are trading one of our best D in Trouba because he's going to leave in a couple of years".
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