Why did LAK let Matt Roy walk?

[Bandit]

Because Rob Blake and Luc Robitaille are incompetent morons

This is the only correct answer. They should have traded him at the deadline but you know… “We were right there” when we lost to the Oilers in 5.

 

[Lt Dan]

This is the only correct answer. They should have traded him at the deadline but you know… “We were right there” when we lost to the Oilers in 5.

We were so right there

 

[Bandit]

How many teams bound for the playoffs trade a top-four defenseman?

The Kings, since trading Faber, Vilardi, a 1st, a 2nd, Iafallo, and Kupari for Fiala and Dubois have been going all in for the playoffs.

Just because everyone has done the wrong thing for forever doesn’t mean it should continue.

Enter Luigi.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Washington sold and then made the playoffs. But it’s rare.

Happened with the Caps last year. Traded Mantha, Edmundson, and Kuznetsov before the TDL. Got back a 2nd, two 3rds, a 4th, and a 5th.

Basically offset the picks they lost when they used a bunch of 2nd thru 5th rounders to add Thompson, Mangiapane, Chychrun, and Eller, and traded up for Ilya Protas.

But the Caps were 10th in the East at the deadline, with a massive negative goal differential. They made the playoffs, but it's not like they were 5th in the conference on March 8th. They had one of the worst goal differentials of any team that's made the playoffs since the 21 team league.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Because the perfect ideal(trading a UFA at the deadline while you're making the playoffs but not a true contender) very rarely happens. People don't want to accept that making the playoffs, and even thinking you might get out of the 1st rd, is something every team does. Very, very, very rarely is that not the case. Other than the Sharks when they traded Douglas Murray and Ryan Clowe, which is over a decade ago, I don't know when it's happened. But people talk about it like it's common.

If you were a rookie GM, and you had a random trade for a RHD while you were in the playoff race, you're own owner would probably stop you from doing it.

Yep. Can't believe that people still don't understand that with "asset management" the human side is incredibly important. Being a clear playoff team with hopes of contending and selling an expiring deal for futures is capital L Loser Shit and just sends a horrible message to the team, coaching staff, fans, everybody.

Keeping Roy for the playoff run then letting him walk was one of the few Rob Blake moves that actually makes sense. The Caps thank him for both Roy and PLD though!

But that's exactly the point--it should never have gotten to this situation to begin with. You can't go from Doughty-Faber-Roy-Walker-Clarke-Spence-Durzi-Grans to losing Faber Walker Durzi and Grans to ALSO letting Roy walk for nothing when you had plenty of options. It wasn't a deadline-non-move; it was 1.5 years of indecision and bad other moves.

It's become a meme on our forum--"what was Blake SUPPOSED to do?"--because it looks like the right decision in the moment but ignores the trail of wreckage that leads to that moment.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

But the Caps were 10th in the East at the deadline, with a massive negative goal differential. They made the playoffs, but it's not like they were 5th in the conference on March 8th. They had one of the worst goal differentials of any team that's made the playoffs since the 21 team league.

no argument here. You said you couldn't remember the last time a playoff team sold at the TDL, so I was offering an example.