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It's trade deadline day and to be honest, it's likely to be another non-event. Seattle has traded off most players of value and all five buying teams, the ones hoping to play in the S49 finals, have 1.5 million in cap space or less.

 

For once though, that's not a bad thing, because Season 49 has been very active in the trade market, ridiculously so. A whopping 14 trades have taken place this season, much more than anyone could have predicted in pre-season. There were a few selling trades involving Stockholm and Helsinki which were lined up before the season started for cap purposes and things got a bit more interesting when Davos had to find suitors for the disgruntled Bobby Digital and Tobias Klingberg. But the market heated up when two key events happened: Seattle decided to pull the plug while in fourth place, while Davos decided to go for it in the weakest European Conference ever. In the end, we have a seriously stacked top three in North America and an actually interesting battle between Cologne and Davos in Europe.

 

As for that total of 14, well that appears to be a VHL record. No other season (not including off-seasons) has seen this many trades occur while games were being played. The peak post-expansion came in Season 39 with 11 trades, mainly the result of Vasteras and Riga trying to win a cup (Davos got into the finals without making any moves). This was followed by 10 trades in S40 as Quebec, Helsinki and Riga (successfully this time) got some rental players.

 

Before expansion, there were less teams and for a long time little incentive to wait until midseason to trade (mandatory percentages only came in after S22). Only two seasons had got to double digits before S31, with 10 in S21 and S6.

 

Good job GMs for making Season 49 interesting and already record-breaking!

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