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Originally Posted by jayswin
From every perspective (losing an asset, who gets points, who stirs the drink etc) you have to sign Gaudreau.
Gaudreau is a lost superstar asset, that alone carries a huge bias towards signing him if he's willing. Tkachuk returns a package or star. You sign Gaudreau if he's willing, 100%.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but there are some cautionary tales (moreso the asset argument than superstar argument):
TOR ended up with a decent return for Kessel, but they've been paying him 1.2M AAV through the best years of their competitive window.
NAS has been overpaying older+inconsistent guys and will probably end up losing a more complete 27 yo player. It's not a disaster, but it's interesting to wonder how else it may have played out.
On the other hand, NYI got better after losing Tavares for nothing. 2 POs and 1 series win in his last 4 years. 3 POs and 5 series wins (+ play-in rd win) in the 4 years since.
The best examples of the "maybe it'll work eventually" plan working are WAS and STL. Both teams had significantly more previous playoff success, but perhaps more importantly neither team had 1st round exits anything like our ANA/COL series (aside from STL getting swept in 2009; Steen and Perron the only common denominators to the cup team)