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Originally Posted by The Cobra
If in this scenario McKinnon won’t sign an extension with anyone, you won’t get an Lindrosian return, he’s a one year rental. He certainly wouldn’t be worth Makar.
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Presumably MacKinnon would sign an extension with someone, just not you. A team isn't trading for him without negotiating an extension, and it would be a ludicrous gamble for a player to wait a year to sign a ~$100M deal.
I agree with the bolded...I'm the one who kicked this off by saying Makar's a no-brainer #1. It's a lot tougher to rank #2-10, but factoring all possibilities related to MacKinnon I think he's still #2 (as you have to apply those factors to other guys, too).
Those re-sign/trade issues exist to varying degrees with McDavid/Matthews/Draisaitl/Aho/Shesterkin.
Barkov/Point/Fox/Heiskanen/Hughes/Vasilevskiy give you more certainty and better value, but they're a tier below the M's. Goalies are voodoo, but I'd have to think long and hard about Vasi.
Hedman/Josi/Crosby are also somewhere in the discussion.