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Originally Posted by CroFlames
What did Yzerman do wrong? Player asks for trade, and Yzerman went to work.
Was the player realistically expecting a trade the day after his request? Things take time. The player and agent are way out of line. Yzerman did nothing wrong, and all the player did was make the trade even harder to do now.
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What did Yzerman do wrong? I believe he miscalculated, and has set an unrealistic price on the asset. The longer he now waits to get the return he wants, it seems highly likely that the offers he already has rejected will only continue to shrink, not grow.
I think a fundamental flaw on both sides of this is that Yzerman and Drouin are approaching this from the perspective of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft: Yzerman sees a #3 drafted player, and is expecting to receive compensation for a lottery pick. Drouin believes in his top-three draft ranking, and is crying foul because his numbers to date are not in line with his peers from the same draft. On the contrary, I don't expect that anyone outside of TB really cares that much where Drouin was drafted, and are more interested in making a deal based on what has happened in the past two-plus years since the 2013 draft.