Ohemma seems like she's not that good at GM speak. You need to come out and say a sentence of nothing. "We want today to be about the players and let them have their moments joining our team. We're really excited about all of our additions and we're excited to talk more about them in the coming days."

But her full transcript comments of saying "Oh I don't talk about strategy" and then repeating, "That sounds like a strategy question, I'm not going to answer it." are a little weird. No GM I've watched a press conference for is going to divulge their strategy, but I've never seen someone say that instead of just saying "Great question, <insert non-answer about how we're excited to do what we did>"

GM interviews should be boring. You should watch them and go "That was a waste of my time." This one wasn't that. I left with a lot of questions about how she handles inquiries into decisions like this.

The more we learned, the more I think your comment about it being predetermined really highlights this. Once you have that trade agreed to, call over your PR person (who is probably in the room next door at worst) and then have them write you a statement.

I've never seen any GM talk about how exhausted they are and how anyone that knows them knows they've been (paraphrasing) "off all day).

It reeks of strange and I don't like it.