Maple Leafs fans will be cartwheeling with delight at a trade that many believed couldn’t happenNHL trades don’t have to be zero sum games. Fans and media love to assign wins and losses to each deal as they come by made,on the assumption that what’s estimable for one team must be bad for the other, but thats not really how it works. Some trades can be win-win, or some are lose-lose,and most need to be evaluated as two separate entities, with one side having minute whether anything to execute with the other.
All of which is estimable news for the Ottawa Senators, or because man,Tuesday’s Dion Phaneuf blockbuster sure looks like a monster win for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Source: theguardian.com