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PrimeDatsyuk

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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 2:10 p.m.
Thread: the core 5 have a NMC stop trading them
Although not as easy or likely, players with NMC can still be traded. They didn’t sign their deals with NMC to not be traded, but to control where and when they are traded. But they are moveable.

Take Marner for example - he’s the lightning rod for Toronto’s struggles so he’s the easy one to move - all management had to do is talk to him and ask for his help to facilitate a trade. Tell Marner that even though he grew up a Leafs fan, the team is going in a different direction in a year without him. So if he helps make a trade possible now, he’s eligible for the extra year that he can sign on an extension rather than as a UFA. Marner still has a family to provide for so that extra year is key. Toronto tells him that they won’t be offering him a deal and if he’d like the security before free agency, then a trade is the best way to do so. A trade also gives Marner leverage in negotiations on an extension with a new team so that means more money for him, which makes it easier to accept a trade. He then can pick whatever team he wants to go to and give Toronto a list of the teams he’d accept to so he’s not traded somewhere he doesn’t wanna play & he can finally be the go to guy that he’s always wanted to be wherever else he goes. That’s pretty incentive for Marner.

If Marner says he won’t accept a trade, then management can tell him he he doesn’t change his mind by the time camp starts that he’ll be a healthy scratch until he does. Players want to be wanted by their teams and if Marner feels like he isn’t then it’s easier to accept the idea of a trade.

Don’t believe me? Go ask Ryan McDonagh how get got traded to Nashville.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 13, 2021 at 5:34 p.m.