hockeykicker
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- Dec 3, 2014
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I thought you couldn't make trades ?
Now Washington can protect Eller, Graovac/Beagle are the two exposed forwards meeting the 40/70 criterion.
What's interesting is that they didn't sign Connolly instead, as he fulfills the 40/70 requirements, too. Signing Connolly instead of trading for Graovac would have opened the possibility of protecting Ovi/Backstrom/Johansson/Eller/Wilson/Kuz/Bura as well. Maybe Capitals won't re-sign Connolly?
Perhaps Grubauer going there wasn't exactly a lock, then? Maybe he will now, but seems they were concerned they'd lose Eller.
I thought you couldn't make trades ?