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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Can you name 5 trades in recent history where this has appeared to be the case?
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Why five? I can give you one. The most obvious comparable situation is Kyle Turris: a promising, highly drafted player with middling early returns in his first couple of seasons, who made his desire to be traded public, and who was sought after by numerous NHL teams. The return was not great.
Can you provide even one example of a comparable situation which has netted an exorbitant return as the product of a massive bidding war?
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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
My view is that Yzerman needs just one GM to overvalue Drouin and nothing else matters. The fact that he wants out should have no bearing on that potentially happening IMO. In fact, if all the GMs know the situation, it should increase the likelihood of this occurring.
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But what is it that that one GM is overvaluing? Is it a highly touted high end draft pick with big potential, or is it an NHL/AHL tweener who scored at less than a .5 pts/game pace in Tampa, and is currently on an AHL roster with 0 points in his two most recent games in Syracuse?
The return is not going to be big. Even if GMs are bidding against one another, they will be bidding for a boom/bust player that carries with him a lot of inherent risk.