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Originally Posted by Jay Random
It certainly makes a difference if you spend $100,000 or $150,000, as that extra $50,000 can buy things worth having.
In the same way, if you trade six pieces instead of four, you are depriving your team of a couple of potentially very useful players.
Interesting that you should choose Bitcoin as an example. You could as easily have chosen tulip bulbs in 17th-century Holland.
Tell you what, you lose everything you own and tell me how little it matters to you.
No one player is ever essential to a winning team. You're fixated on Eichel and believe that there are no alternatives, because you want exactly that kind of a player and have hypnotized yourself (with much help from other posters) into the belief that the team cannot possibly win without him.
If you trade so much for Eichel that you leave him with a supporting cast as bad as he had in Buffalo, you will get the same results as Buffalo. He's not a miracle-worker.
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You missed the entire point of the post by fixating on trying to undermine generalities. I used general terms to make an overall point which was that the most important things when it comes to asset acquisition is whether or not you really truly want the asset.
Once an organization has determined that they want Jack Eichel and that’s it. Then whether they give up 4 pieces or 6 pieces is irrelevant. I’m going based off the assumption that most of these pieces will be futures and thus the incremental impact on the current roster will be negligible.
You can haggle a car salesman because they can always just make you another. There’s only one Jack Eichel and Buffalo has got him. Sometimes if you really truly want a player, you pay whatever it takes to get it done. This franchise does not have an elite 1st line center in the past 30 years. I’m sure fans would be able to forgive and forget if the Flames “overpaid” which is a relative thing anyway and very hard to judge in this circumstance.
Tomorrow - if the Flames traded 5x 1st round picks for Eichel. I have a feeling majority of fans would be OK with it. And at the end of the day - the fans are the ones who buy the tickets so management should have a barometer for that.