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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The Hamonic trade was crap too, I wasn't a fan of that at the time it happened.
Tampa is fine to give up the assets. But Foote and the Vancouver first should have been able to get them more than Blake Coleman. I don't think he's a top 6 forward for them, and that's a ton to pay for a third liner.
He's a good 200ft player, and he will help them, but it's an over-payment for a 0.5 ppg energy guy that's having a good shooting percentage year that's inflating his goal total.
Those assets for Tampa would have been better suited to help shore up their defense as well, which is a bigger area of need than a third line forward for them IMO.
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I think your value discrepancy is due to significantly undervaluing the cap hit to production ratio.
The highest priority value a contending team can have is AAV. Acquiring a 30 goal scorer making 200k more than Janko is worth dealing a prospect and a pick for a team completely uninterested in adding pre-apex players to their lineup if it means a downgrade in quality.
This is probably the last season they can keep the band together with so many significant expiring and long term deals, so the value of the high performance low aav is even more pronounced.
For a team like Tampa, the value of the 1st is miniscule. If they want to add more 1st round picks, they will have no shortage of teams willing to pony up for any number of their players, much like how they got the 1st they just moved in the first place. They still have all their major picks for the next 3 years. They still have 8 picks in this coming draft. They have 9 picks in 2021.
A 1st for the flames is a big deal because they waste picks on garbage. It's not a big deal for Tampa because they don't.