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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The comparisons to Lindros are total wishful thinking. With the amount of money guys make now, and the amount of money they stand to make with early free agency, someone like McDavid is potentially leaving over $10 million on the table by refusing to sign for even one year. It simply is not going to happen. He'll suck it up and wear that crappy jersey.
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I think it's a huge long shot for sure, but not as impossible as you make it seem.
IF McDavid was to let them know that he had no intention of signing with the Oilers, they would have two choices: A) Draft him, take the risk that he decides to play. If he does great. If he doesn't care about his future $10 mil as compared to his future $100s of mils from contracts and endorsements and decides to not play, they can trade him or lose him for nothing to the draft. B) Trade the pick/player.
Again. IF McDavid was to do this, it would be completely ridiculous for Edmonton not to trade the pick. The kings ransom they get for it could be exactly what they need to fill every other hole they have. Yeah, none of them would be McDavid, but it would certainly look much better than having a teenager that would rather play sub-par hockey for the next 2 years than play for your franchise. They would have to do something. If they trade him, he could play right away and still make his extra millions you think he's so worried about. You make it seem like if he holds out, he automatically loses this money and has to sit out which is just plain not the case.
If I was a kid in his position, with what I know now, I would totally hold out. Screw the agent, he just wants his extra commissions. Screw what you think the rest of the league would think. They wouldn't look at this as some egotisical superstar putting it to the small-town hockey loving Canadians like Lindros was, or at least i don't think most of them would. You honestly think guys like Burke/Lombardi/Davidson/whoever would really blame him for doing it? I think Burke would be the first to burst out in hysterical laughter.
Again, I highly doubt this happens. But to paint it as some fantasy world thought process I just don't think is accurate.