[GreenLantern]

I am going to spoiler this so people can skip it, but basically BACKCHECK called me crazy for saying Cammalleri would get about this return:

Spoiler!

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Former Assistant GM Frank Provenzano gave his opinions what the top trade targets would fetch in return.

Link to the pay article is http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/crai...2&refresh=true

He says Cammalleri's price tag is a 2nd round pick, B-level prospect, and maybe a roster player (to make the money work)

Stempniak's price tag is a 3rd round pick plus C-level prospect

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

I think he is bang on, a 2nd and a B level prospect seems a bit high for Cammy, but as your snippet suggests eating a bad contract helps raise his value and makes it a more realistic return. I imagine the contract coming back would be multi-year as well like Jones.

Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!

You may think that he is bang on because you are both on drugs.

Powerful, mind-altering drugs.

Dominic Moore gets traded for a 2nd rounder every trade deadline.

Let's use the Way-Back Machine for the last 3 or 4 years, and see what a 2nd rounder and a scrub is worth on deadline day in the *real world*...

Ales Kotalik for a 2nd
Steve Eminger, for a scrub and a 3rd
Nik Antropov for a 2nd and a conditional pick
Clarke MacArthur for a 3rd and 4th
Eric Belanger for a 2nd
Dustin Penner for a scrub, 1st, and a 3rd
Chris Higgins for a scrub and a 3rd
Brad Winchester for a 3rd
Paul Gaustad and a 4th, for a 1st
Johnny Oduya for a 2nd and 3rd
Raffi Tores for a 3rd
Robyn Regehr for two 2nds
Ryan Clowe for a 2nd, 3rd, and conditional 2nd
Jordan Leopold for a 2nd
Doug Murray for a 2nd and conditional 2nd


Not one of those guys is a point-per-game playoff performer that I know of, and there's not one of them that I'd trade straight-up for Mike Cammalleri.

Forget about having to eat a garbage boat-anchor contract to get the privilege of underselling possibly the top player on the deadline market.

I think it is safe to say that Cammalleri would have got even less than Vanek IF he was traded, or possibly around the same.. which still would have been exactly what I said he was worth.

Who is crazy now?!!?!!? BMWUAHAHAHHHA