Toronto Maple Leafs fans should be glad that GM Brad Treliving didn’t panic and try to land Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks.
To explain my point, I’ll need to dip into my economics background. The hype surrounding the Quinn Hughes sweepstakes was something former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called “irrational exuberance.” In other words, the teams interested in landing Hughes were willing to pony up, regardless of the cost.
As the prevailing chatter states, some teams backed off because there were no guarantees Hughes would come with a contract extension. The Minnesota Wild, however, succumbed to the irrational exuberance.