I don't really understand Friedman's point on Galchenyuk either.
You have a guy who is 23, just breaking out, still has 2 years of RFA status before UFA who is probably going to want a contract in the $6 million range.
But you don't know if you want to pay that much for him.
So you are going to trade him for a 26 year old, who has similar point production, who make $6M for the next two years until he is a UFA.
Why not keep the younger, RFA, if he is going to be making $6M as well.
|