Quoting: Mediumyeet
It doesn't though. Horvat to Colorado makes sense. Avs fans are just ridiculous on here. If you talk to non keyboard warrior fans they have interest in Horvat.
Not sure I've ever seen an avs fan on here with a logical take. Y'all act like no team has ever traded for a rental.
dude, avs fans have been logical this entire time, you just cant get your get past your own canucks view point.
Teams can not invest at the deadline every year, that is how they get into trouble really fast. Avs depleted their futures last year with smart buys. Picking up Lehkonen and Manson, both guys they paid to get and were able to keep bc of RFA control or talking to Manson prior to the trade his desire to sign in Colorado. HE waived to go to the Avs, avs knew they had the contract space to keep him.
Avs will make a trade at the deadline to load up, but htey arent being reckless wiht all these Horvat proposals. They simply can not afford to invest the assets in him and then watch him walk. It creates a bigger hole next year. And no moving girard doesn't open up cap, it creates a masive voide that they have to go and spend in UFA to plug, they will just get a worse player in UFA and over pay to do so. Its not smart business.
Sakic and his front office are patient, to the point they are painfully patient. They do not get into bidding wars at deadlines, they do not panic trade, they have select targets they go after, they set their prices and if they arent met, they move on. They have been operating like this for 10 years under his watch. Horvat isnt going to make t hem change how they manage their assets and conduct trades.
This is what avs fans have been telling people in these horvat proposals for weeks, yet guys like you refuse to listen. When Avs fans say its a bad trade, its not bc they are being trolls, delusional etc, they know how their team operates, and nothing is pointing towards t hem changing now