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Originally Posted by Zarley
You don't seem to understand that a player's value is not only determined by how skilled that player is, but also the term of the players contract. That's why Bouwmeester will fetch a superior return. If you had told me at the beginning of the season that an Iginla pure rental trade would bring a first and two prospects I would've been pleasantly surprised. We are lucky that it's a seller's market right now with plenty of teams in the playoff hunt; there are some years where the return from this type of trade would be far worse.
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I think you're being way to kind. Two prospects could be Morrow and Pouliot, Silfverberg and Zibanejad or in our case the great Ben Hanowski and Kenny Agostino. Vast difference. A first was always going to be the minimum(unless we were getting a blue chipper/NHL ready guy) and the sticking point was always going to be the +. The prospects we got are subpar with one projecting to be a third line guy and the other a career AHLer/13th forward. It is a seller's market, and Feaster somehow sold low.