That is legit the dumbest reason for a trade and one of the things I hate about this place. Every team tries to offload someone on Minnesota and their logic is that they are from here or played in the state at some point. Just for players born in the state, not including those who moved here as a child or played at Shattuck or in one of the D1 colleges (we have 6), we have more active NHLers than Finland and just 6 fewer than Russia. Extrapolating the list to add in those who played at some level in the state here at some point would put us firmly behind the Canada and the rest of the US for 3rd largest producer of NHL talent in the world. Thankfully, Gurein has made it clear that he isn't trying to make some sort of Minnesota all star team here and so someone's Minnesota residency status isn't viewed as a plus in trade discussions.

In other words, your logic is bad and you should feel bad.