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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Even the idea that a 5.6 million dollar Kadri is worth the same as a guy who has 20 points this year is crazy. Roy is closer to Beecher than he is to Kadri in terms of hockey ability.
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It's not this year teams are worried about though, or even next year.
It's his contract for his 37 and 38 year old seasons that brings his trade value down.
If Kadri had just this season and next left on his contact like Roy then he'd probably be returning a haul right now. But it's the later years that cause concern, and it's what normalizes that value.
It's the same reason why some people were okay with what I would say was a quantity trade instead of a quality trade for Weegar, because you knew you were getting out of the last 2-3 years of that deal.