So much for "Build from within"

I am totally ok with the idea behind this trade. I think we should wait and see how it works out, but I think we are going to be pleasantly surprised in a few weeks about how this turns out.

But this team was building from in to see what they had and would pursue what they still needed. Hannan is a good D in the right system but not the Avs. Cohen is still a few years from being aNHL regular unless his offense takes off to make up for what he needs to work on. Before Jones showed what he could do at LW, the Avs really needed a LW … Then Mueller got hurt. So the Avs went out and picked up players who potentially fit what they are doing and it really only cost them one possibly good player. This team has finally started to shift gears from just building from within and are now ready to take the next step. Look at LA who were always considered better than the Avs and they are spinning theirs wheels living off of the few core players they have and haven’t taken steps to fill their glaring holes up front.

Then we’ve built from within.

Look at the current roster and see who has come up through the system and who was traded for.

Yes, we have made some trades, but that is an inevitability of hockey.

I see your point. Oh, if only we had signed Volchenkov.

On the other hand, these trades are all minor. We didn’t give up any All-Stars, we didn’t gain any All-Stars. Not a single name involved in these trades is earth-shattering. We are simply rearranging necessary parts to fill roles opened by injury or better fit what Sacco is trying to do. A resounding “meh” is the reaction of the rest of the league, and many of these trades are only news because there’s not much else going on trade-wise.

If we trade Hishon, Pickard, Shattenkirk, Stewart, Duchene, O’Reilly, Stastny, or any future No. 1 picks, then I’ll start calling B.S. on the build from within. Moving anyone else in or out at this time is just adding complementary parts to our youthful core. And it’s not like we shipped off Cohen for Langenbruener. We brought back a young player who has a long career ahead of him.

I’d way rather trade for these guys 1/4 way through the season so they can build some chemistry, as opposed to overpaying for guys on deadline day.

There are two things about saying you are building from within:

1- you really are building from within, which is true with the Avs;
2- when you look for a trade, the other GMs know you are not desperate, so both parties look to get a fair deal out of it.

If you dive in the off season market, it’s always more expensive because you are dealing with other GMs wanting the same players; and, at the deadline trade delay, everyone looks a little bit more desperate to get the piece(s) that will allow them to make the playoffs or to go deeper in the playoffs, and it is in these times that you can become willing to give prospects you should not even consider giving.

Right now, Sherman makes the right moves without jeopardizing the future of the team, and I think, at the same time, he is gaining some respect from more experienced GMs who see he is not a fool but a man pondering things before acting.

Finally, about Cohen and Shattenkirk. We both saw them playing at about the same time, and something worried me about Cohen, while I was in awe with Shattenkirk. Shattenkirk is cool, he deals with pressure very well, like Duchene and O’Reilly did last year. He is a very intelligent young defenseman. Cohen has a hot temper; I am not sure, but from what I saw, I think he has problems controling it, either lacking judgement or having too much bravado. He is a defenseman who will take bad penalties, at least in his young years.

i love seeing the underrated Shermanator pull these trades off quietly and seemlessly seemingly without a hitch while the Kings not only publicly failed to sign Kovi, but now publicly made asses of themselves with the Marco Sturm business