If and when the Sens trade Duchene and Stone it will and should be in separate deals that maximize both players trade values to teams that will overpay for a rental.
- islansjet
This is obvious to most people... except many of the people with too much time on their hands around here. What you do is build up interest, pit at least 2 interested parties against each other, and let things escalate. Pittsburgh and Winnipeg locked horns last year around Brassard, and it wound up getting them Gustavsson, a 1st, a 3rd, and Cole... then Cole became a 3rd, and the 1st became a 1st and 2nd by trading down at the draft. Trade deadline competition is also why Burrows inexplicably wound up costing them Dahlen.
What you don't do, is try to batch high-cap players to the point where very few teams can make it work cap-wise... like, say, trying to make teams interested in Karlsson take Ryan as well.
