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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I call it the Marc Savard effect. When you don't cut bait and take a less than flattering return for a young player you think you can turn around....you end up getting even less later on.
Treliving played it right with Baertschi. Take the best deal and go forward not worrying about what you gave up. Edmonton will keep looking back trying to fix the past and forget to fix what they can control.
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The thing is that the Oilers should be well versed at how not to handle this as despite fully knowing both players were not in their future plans they held out on Gagner and Hemsky right until the very end when their value was at it's lowest and they were forced to accept pennies on the dollar when there was a time both could have fetched far more in a trade.
The dilemma is that they can hold on to him and play him top 6 next season in hopes he has a spike in production then trade him for possibly a solid prospect or even late 1st round pick but on the flip side if he continues to underwhelm and toil in the bottom 6 for them in his 5th season the idea of fetching a 2nd round pick for him may sound like the good old days.
I personally think they will cut bait and trade him but do it at the draft at the same time they trade one of RNH, Eberle, or Hall in a big deal for a defenseman so that the underwhelming return will be overshadowed by their big splash for a defenseman.