Steve Werier
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257 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Because if so, that would handcuff Anaheim, one, to not trade them with a reduced cash hit until at least the second year deadline.
And if they didn't, if they tried to move them before, well, then an acquirer would have to eat that 18 million extra
which would be a real tough pill to swallow.
Whereas, you know, maybe Anaheim by some bullet anyway, just to sort of move on from the player at that point.
A little bit of a sunk cost argument.
It reminds me of like when I started in Florida, there was a book and I don't remember who made it in the front office, but it was like the oral history of all our moves and like post-hoc rationalization.
So I make it up and it was like, you know, we traded Pavel Bure for an eighth round pick, but that eighth round pick was swapped three more times and then used for Sasha Barkov.
So that Bure trade was good.
And it's like, yeah, it's a little tricky.
You know, you can make decisions and be like, we have a surplus of draft picks.
We can act accordingly.
But to sort of, you know, I think you sort of, in a way, look at each move in the vacuum and say, you know, is there a positive expected value from this particular transaction?
I do think teams get into trouble if they think they're creating problems.
a position of surplus and be like, oh, we have so much cap space because we did X, Y, let's throw a little bit more on this player.
That's always a dangerous move if you're like the guy in Casino who's like, oh, I just hit it at roulette, let's just play a little blackjack on the way out.
And then by the time you leave, you're like, I'm not in that great position anymore.
Yeah, I mean, I thought this was going to happen a long time ago, and maybe it still won't happen for a long time.
It's a good point.
Like, the game gets more complex.
The CBA, when it first came in, made it more complex.
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