For want of a psychic moment

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So at the deadline (or actually 45 minutes after the deadline, since @Spade18 couldn't be bothered to be on :P but the trade was approved by the higher ups anyway) I traded away the Vilhjalmssons for a few late picks and a bunch of inactives, including a half decent one in Guimond. Now obviously for three active guys that's not the greatest haul, but they signed partway into the season anyway so I'd have lost them for free at the end of the season, so I'm not that concerned about not getting too much for them. It was absolutely the right move at the time, a selling team selling its actives as rentals, and it's a standard hockey move. 

 

Here's the thing though: after the deadline, when all the recreates recreated, I got 3 of them to come to Ottawa - Samuel Gate, Mikhail Vega, and Marvin Harding. Admittedly, I don't think it would have been enough to fix anything in the regular season, but I think it would have made for an interesting roster headed into the playoffs, if I'd have actually kept the brothers. I'd have had two full lines of active forwards, the brothers would stay together and Ambrose Charizard could play alongside the two new forwards in Vega and Harding (and this will be a line going forward as well). I'd have had an actual active defenseman for once in Gate, who could play alongside my position switched inactives, Weise and Fart (Weise was also sent to Yukon for a 3rd at the deadline). Right move at the time, no question about that, but it provides an interesting thought experiment about what could have been, had I somehow known exactly which recreates I'd get prior to them even existing.