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Originally Posted by jayswin
Haha, remember when you thought Schlemko would get over $3mil per year on a multiple year contract this summer?
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Yeah, I do remember arguing that was his value. He's averaging ~20 minutes a night as NJ's #4 defenceman and has the same number of points as Kris Russell. I don't get why $3 mil/year for a solid #4 defenceman is insane.
But that's all irrelevant to this discussion, the closest comparable to Yakupov in terms of trade value that has been moved recently is Brett Connolly from Tampa Bay to Boston for a pair of 2nds. The year he was traded, he had 15 points in 50 games and hadn't shown much at the NHL level to live up to his draft billing. Yakupov will be a productive player if he leaves Edmonton, and won't be if he doesn't.