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February has become a favorite month for the fans: The trade deadline. Yes there will be lots of trade discussions by GM’s, but nowhere near the amount writers will report or fans will fantasize about. The history of the trade deadline changed dramatically in the mid-‘90s. There were always some trades done right at the end, but not the flurry of trades that came about in the latter half of the ‘90s. As the GM of Winnipeg, while I acquired the nickname “Trader Mike,” I rarely made trades at the deadline. I believed you only made trades when you needed to. I never talked about trading a player away unless I really wanted to trade him. It was, for me, un-“team”-like to talk about trading away your players simply as idle conversation. This all changed by the time I arrived in Toronto in 1997. Most teams now waited until two... [read full story]
