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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 9 at 10:32 p.m.
Thread: CapFriendly Delusional Fanbases
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GMBL</b></div><div>From my experience on here, pretty much every rebuilding team fanbase, during their rebuild ends up being in the LW position, especially if the rebuild is/expected to be lengthy. Often they are expecting teams' top prospects in trades, a 1st+ in every cap dump situation (regardless of the situation/reason for a team to maybe want to dump a play), they will never want to trade for a superstar player in any circumstance, "We don't want him, but if we do we'll just sign him in free agency", and some fans seemingly don't want the rebuild to end (unless they draft their way out of the rebuild), so if their GM starts making moves to try ending the rebuild they start to turn on him.</div></div>

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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 9 at 11:06 a.m.
Thread: Now who will be there future defenseman
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GMBL</b></div><div>In addition to what was said, they will likely have the opportunity to draft a highly touted RHD in the upcoming draft that is a TWD.</div></div>

This is a great point. Prior to the trade the Ducks were really in a spot where they should draft a winger above all else. This trade removes that necessity and will allow them to draft BPA (as you always should in the NHL).

As to the original question, Drysdale became available because of how much Luneau has impressed Verbeek. I said it in a conversation over the summer with someone on here about Zellweger not being a prototypical "Verbeek defenseman". He though that would eventually lead to Zellweger getting traded. My reply was all those same things could be said about Drysdale. Smaller guy, Bob Murray draft pick and so on.

Not a big shocker that this trade had a guy 5'11" going out of Anaheim and one that is 6'3" coming in.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 8 at 2:29 p.m.