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The way this whole Rantanen thing has gone down is pretty weird.

I can understand making the trade for him if you’ve already discussed it with him ahead of time and worked out a contract extension. I can understand acquiring him as a pure rental for this year’s playoff run. And I can understand acquiring him with the hope that, by the time the playoffs are done and he’s had a few months to settle in, you’ve sold him on the idea of staying in Carolina.

But yanking him totally unexpectedly out of the only NHL city he’s ever known and his home for the past 10 years to a city on the other side of the continent he has no connection to, sticking a contract under his nose and then telling him “Hey, welcome to Raleigh! Commit to staying here for the next eight years right now, or we’ll start taking calls for you and ship you off to some other place before the deadline.”…again, just a very weird way to handle things.
 
it's a fuckup by normally pretty good Carolina management

you don't make that deal if you can't re-sign him, which they had the opportunity to find out beforehand by all accounts
 
Preston said:
Sloppy GMing by the nerd
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How so? The way I see it is he took a shot at Rantanen with an out if he couldn't resign him. I think he'll get more for Rantanen than he would have for the cost of acquiring Rantanen. He could turn middling into high end return.

Now if he can get Rantanen to agree to a sign and trade he'd get even more.
 
Habsy said:
How so? The way I see it is he took a shot at Rantanen with an out if he couldn't resign him. I think he'll get more for Rantanen than he would have for the cost of acquiring Rantanen. He could turn middling into high end return.

Now if he can get Rantanen to agree to a sign and trade he's get even more.
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Unless its a 1v1 or close to a 1v1 it doesn't help their run now. Most rental deadline deals are for futures
 
I think the market has been set, it's going to be fugly might as well pay for actually good players as opposed to throwing 2's at guys that arent actual upgrades
 
LeafGm said:
The way this whole Rantanen thing has gone down is pretty weird.

I can understand making the trade for him if you’ve already discussed it with him ahead of time and worked out a contract extension. I can understand acquiring him as a pure rental for this year’s playoff run. And I can understand acquiring him with the hope that, by the time the playoffs are done and he’s had a few months to settle in, you’ve sold him on the idea of staying in Carolina.

But yanking him totally unexpectedly out of the only NHL city he’s ever known and his home for the past 10 years to a city on the other side of the continent he has no connection to, sticking a contract under his nose and then telling him “Hey, welcome to Raleigh! Commit to staying here for the next eight years right now, or we’ll start taking calls for you and ship you off to some other place before the deadline.”…again, just a very weird way to handle things.
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I don't think it's weird at all. It's a business strategy without the emotion that you're attaching to it.
 
Artnes said:
Unless its a 1v1 or close to a 1v1 it doesn't help their run now. Most rental deadline deals are for futures
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Carolina has a good team. They can pick up futures to keep them a good team or to use as capital to acquire someone else. If you're looking at this as solely an asset based decision it's actually quite like Tulsky to do so.
 
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