A term thrown around far too often during the trade deadline period is "auditioning". When a player that has been in trade rumours around the deadline has a good game, many analysts come out and say "if he was auditioning to be traded, he did very well".
This is absolutely ridiculous. Teams in the NHL do not base whether they will make a trade for a player based on one good game that happened near the deadline. To even suggest that is ludicrous. Teams have large groups of pro scouts that they rely on for information on these players and the process is an on-going one.
If teams traded for every player that had a good game then the deadline would be a lot busy but, there would be a lot more silly trades. Oh, one good game and your stock shoots through the roof, ridiculous.
Steve Ott had a good game against the Blackhawks last game, every team better go out and trade for him now, he's so valuable to every single team! While it may be viable for some teams to go after Ott, like the Vancouver Canucks who are trying to add grit, but they won't be trading for him because he scored a goal and got the energy going in one game against the Hawks.
There you go, stop using auditioning or I'm going to have to rant again.
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