04-23-2019, 01:20 PMztevans Wrote: Then how are you going to prevent it from happening as a GM if this is your responsibility?  *If* Colorado had remembered they had this pick when the draft rolled around, then what?  You still have an illegal trade and a mess on your hands.  

You're mixing things up here. The trade was totally legal. If Colorado had pointed out that the draft order was wrong ahead of the draft, we would have corrected it and everything would've been fine. We would've warned the pick tracker and probably denied him payment for the season. Problem solved.

04-23-2019, 01:20 PMztevans Wrote: I get it.  Colorado's management should have remembered they traded for the pick.  But without an accurate league-wide pick tracker as a resource, are they supposed to keep a log somewhere of their own past trades for fact-checking purposes, especially as management groups change?

Yes. GMs know that and many actually do.

04-23-2019, 01:20 PMztevans Wrote: I reiterate, verbatim: Lots of people should have caught it long before it got to that point, so why not just try to make the best of a bad situation and move on?

Because if we do that, it's gonna happen again, because GMs will not double check their picks ahead of the draft. STL played a full season with a team that was stronger than it should've been. I don't want to see that.