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Originally Posted by Bonded
Most of the pushback you have been getting is around proposals that turned Andersson into the 2nd overall or Johnston. If Conroy’s price for Andersson is a young C with top line potential potential then we likely see him go at the deadline for a Hanifin type return. Hopefully a GM on the other end pays up but it’s pretty hard to see that kind of player coming back from a contender.
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I've had no issue with the pushback, I also do not think that Johnston is likely to be traded.
It is the thoughtless blanket statements that take away from the conversation instead of building on it that grinds my gears. It is one of the reasons this conversation never progresses beyond someone throwing out a speculative idea and then the same group of people driving by saying "NEVAAAAAAAR".
It is a shame because this conversation could be a lot more fun. I had a thought about gamifying it and try to simulate the bidding war between the ~6 teams that have been rumoured to be interested in Andersson and put together the various initial bids that Conroy has obviously rejected as well as the follow up bids that are likely taking place right now.
Then maybe the more casual posters could start to understand that we are not just talking about the value of Andersson in a vacuum, but we are talking about the value of Andersson in a seller's market where there are no other real options for teams to acquire a player like Andersson and 6-10 teams all trying to get him at different points in time.
The complexity of the situation is what makes it interesting and the effort many of you make to dumb it down is not.