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Originally Posted by Toonage
Its acting like the Flames have a farm system full of prospects and that giving up a few of them is no big deal. Like they don't need to keep adding to it. Add a broken Jack Eichel, stop drafting and watch this current team sink or swim. Like if it fails, the team just ceases to exist. Oh well, they took their shot, Eichel couldn't play, the team is awful.
People are so jacked (pun intended?) that they're not thinking straight.
Trade a 1st? Fine. I get that. Its been done before. Trade two 1sts? Thats getting a bit dumb. Trade a 1st, and 3 top prospects? They only have 3. Thats pretty dumb. Trade all that and a roster player? Christ you'll be setting up an environment worse than Buffalo for the guy to play in.
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I think those who are ok with dealing the 4 futures are of the thinking that the reality is, likely only 2 of those 4 will amount to anything.
So you are really trading 2 assets for 1. There's risk on both sides, there's risk that Eichel can't get back to 100%, but there's also risk that the futures won't be anywhere near as good as Eichel at 75% or 100%.
You also can't just ignore that those future assets are further away from making an impact, you have to discount that in the valuation. By the time those 4 assets contribute meaningfully, the current core may not be around or as impactful as they are now.