Pizza, it’s what is for dinner.
Well, the Trade Deadline Day rumors have started to fly already. Foremost on my radar at the moment is the possibility of a threeway deal involving Colorado, the Pens, and Boston. Yes, Crosby needs a scoring winger and the aged Hedge Duck (Hejduk) probably has a few goals left in his body. But parting with Staal or Whitney? WTF? I could see Boston parting with some of their goaltending depth though…
Anyway, this got me a thinkin’. Here is a quick guide for Trade Deadline Day. Yes, this is the day when the cast of colourful characters at Sportsnet orders Boston fucking Pizza onair and Bill Watters starts to look more like Death and Nick Kypreos starts to look more like Bill Watters. Wait, why were you watching Sportsnet?
Rule #1: Generally, you should hope your team does not trade.
If a team is trading at the deadline, it is usually for one of two reasons: because they are low in the standings and dumping players, salary, short term (that year or a near future year) draft picks or they are trying to attain short term gain, by giving up prospective assets and gaining a skilled player in an area they previously had shortcommings.
If it is the first case, it is likely that your team is crap and will only become good years into the future and only if the acquired assets are used correctly (like drafting well). A good example here are the Washington Capitals. Remember the year they had that fire sale, sending Lang to Detroit and Bondra to Mexico City, Mexico Ottawa, Canada? Only now, since that time, has that team become truly elite, and only due to using draft picks and acquired young talent well.
If your team is trading because they are hoping to ‘go over the top’ and make a run at a championship, be very fucking afraid (does not apply to fans of The Franchise, Red Wings of Third World America Detroit). The idea here is to give up potential assets to gain a known quantity that will win your team Lord Stanley’s Poop Mug. As fact, one of thirty teams does this each year. Said team then, probably will not win. Then, in the following year, without a young talent pool to dry support from during a long season and quite possibly without the short term asset that was so valuable for a 3 month period, the team becomes mediocre, then the following year shit. My regards, Pens fans.
Of course, maybe a team is trading for neither of these reasons or is, but not following these models. Well have a Milkshake, Eli. Seepage Eli, Seepage!
Rule #2: The pay site HockeyBuzz.com is a fee for being stupid.
By this point, the guy is so obviously not an insider, or an insider in such a limited way and ‘enhancer’ of tidbits he may know, that any authority invested here (let alone money) is misplaced. I am open to being convinced otherwise, but as it stands, I will actively advise against paying for hockey fucking trade rumors when better information is available for free. Thanks. This Rule is a species of a broader genus: any given trade rumor is likely false.
Rule 3: In Canada, first is TSN, then the Score, then Sportsnet. Watch Trades. Get drunk. Cry. Enjoy.
But first is Kuklaskorner.com. I would say the Score is first, but I just got high definition and the prospect of staring at Bob McKenzie’s growing neck and jowels is just too tempting.
Bonus Rule: There’s a salary cap, and nobody in North America has any money.
So calm down.
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