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Originally Posted by Bonded
His value is pretty established. Mid to late first with another piece to balance out where the first is or expected to be. Lindholm, Hronek, and Hanifin are all pretty fair comparables.
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I tend to agree with this valuation, but there are a lack of top end free agent options this year, with teams benefiting from a bigger than usual cap bump. Raz comes in with a pretty solid contract that can fit on almost any team next year, especially with retention. And the trading team has a year to figure out fitting his higher contract in the next year.
He also doesn’t have to be traded until the deadline (although there are problems with this).
Perhaps this year the stars have aligned for a big overpayment for our guy.