HSK/NYA ; S51 off-season

[Higgins 3,618]

receives:

S52 TOR 2nd

S53 NYA 3rd

 

receives:

S52 SEA 2nd

[Devise 4,475]

Accept, thanks to @Higgins for some quick negotiations on a rather simple deal here. 

[FacePuncher 1,343]

Hmmm

[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

did devise actually move up in the draft or is that just me.

[gregreg 930]

[Victor 10,940]

oy assholes, Riga hasn't won yet. Show some respect.

[Devise 4,475]

Just now, Victor said:

oy assholes, Riga hasn't won yet. Show some respect.

 

Oh pish posh. We've allowed trades featuring teams out of the playoffs during the finals for ages.  

[gregreg 930]

1 minute ago, Victor said:

oy assholes, Riga hasn't won yet. Show some respect.

Trades can happen whenever they want

[Victor 10,940]

6 minutes ago, Mr. Power said:

 

Oh pish posh. We've allowed trades featuring teams out of the playoffs during the finals for ages.  

no...

[Kendrick 4,741]

12 minutes ago, TheLastOlympian07 said:

did devise actually move up in the draft or is that just me.

I'm amazed he even wanted draft picks back. Usually they'd all be gone by now

[Da Trifecta 1,899]

Wait, wait, wait. Does @Mr. Power really have draft picks?

[scoop 3,432]

18 minutes ago, President Donald Trump said:

Wait, wait, wait. Does @Mr. Power really have draft picks?

One less than before this trade

[Toast 887]

All picks should be voided for this act of disrespect

[solas 1,951]

BLOCKBUSTER

[Da Trifecta 1,899]

22 minutes ago, Streetlight said:

One less than before this trade

 

Normally by now his next 5 years of draft picks are gone.

[Will 4,660]

1 hour ago, Mr. Power said:

Oh pish posh. We've allowed trades featuring teams out of the playoffs during the finals for ages.  

 

We have? It's never happened in my tenure, in fact I voided SEA/COL a few hours ago  

 

6.5 - Trade Deadline

After the trade deadline (approximately Game 280) teams are not allowed to make trades until after the last game of the playoffs.

[Devise 4,475]

Just now, Draper said:

 

We have? It's never happened in my tenure, in fact I voided SEA/COL a few hours ago  

 

6.5 - Trade Deadline

After the trade deadline (approximately Game 280) teams are not allowed to make trades until after the last game of the playoffs.

 

Yes we have. I'm sure of it. I recall it happening a few times actually and if I remember the Admin at the time simply said that it wasn't a huge deal if it was happening with teams not currently involved in the finals. I'm pretty sure it has only happened during the finals not the rest of the playoffs though. 

[gregreg 930]

No idea why you would void them either. They're going to be done when the playoffs are over anyways. 

[Devise 4,475]

1 minute ago, gregreg said:

No idea why you would void them either. They're going to be done when the playoffs are over anyways. 

 

Exactly. Also last I checked both the VHL and VHLM missed more than a single day of sims that was never caught up. We are literally "one official day" from the seasons end. Come on Blue Team, lets end this fucking season already enough of these jokes. You can't tell me people are sitting there going "man I really want to wait 24 hours to repost all this because I want to sleep in anticipating for Game 7." 

[BOOM 8,745]

I really want to wait 24 hours for these to be reposted, because I want to sleep in anticipation of game 7.

[Kendrick 4,741]

Actually you all are kind of right. We never really have allowed trades like this to happen during the playoffs, but in reality it hurts no one.

[Frank 5,209]

They allow trades in the NHL playoffs for eliminated teams, are we saying we're better than the NHL?

[Phil 5,119]

6 hours ago, Higgins said:

receives:

S52 TOR 2nd

S53 NYA 3rd

 

receives:

S52 SEA 2nd

 

Oh.. so @Mr. Power I guess you're not wanting to draft me

[Victor 10,940]

4 hours ago, Frank said:

They allow trades in the NHL playoffs for eliminated teams, are we saying we're better than the NHL?

Yes.

[Victor 10,940]

And there is more logic to not allowing trades during playoffs than to allowing them.

 

1. A GM of a team in the finals might not be planning or even know their off-season plans before they know if they won or not. They are unlikely to be as involved in negotiations as eliminated teams' GMs and as this isn't the NHL life, you can't expect people to be constantly "working the phones" even if they are still in the playoffs

2. As a result, some trades may well be sealed because of less competition. I doubt this was the case in such an inconsequential trade but it is possible that if Toronto or Riga wanted a piece from Helsinki, New York would have found it more difficult to acquire it. By allowing mid-playoff trades, New York gets that advantage by virtue of being less good than Toronto and Riga.

3. The Hamilton and Kyanon rights trade was particularly bad as if it was processed, you're basically saying that Seattle can gain an advantage and speak to two FAs now while Toronto or Riga, even if they wanted to make a similar trade, would have to wait 2-3 days.

 

Meanwhile, the counter-argument is "oh but we're so bored, sim all the games today, and let's start the off-season". How about suck less?