Quoting: arafay
That’s honestly absurd even for a mcdavid trade
Scheifele (top 10 c in league) + laine (generational goal scorer) > mcdavid (best player in world who won’t score more goals than laine in his career)
Morrissey>>nurse. Morrissey is borderline elite right now (and probably elite with a full season) and nurse is not.
Vesalainen>>poolparty. Even if you ignore the fact that poolparty isn’t looking too good, Vesalainen is a stud. He does everything poolparty does except better
It's not absurd. It's the cost of the best player of his generation.
Go look at the two Lindros packages. Actually I'll get them for you
The Rangers:
trade Sergei Nemchinov, Tony Amonte, Alexei Kovalev, James Patrick, and either John Vanbiesbrouck or Mike Richter, as well as multiple first-round draft picks and $20 million.[24
The Philly trade :
The finalized trade had the Nordiques acquire Hextall, Duchesne, Ricci, Kerry Huffman, Peter Forsberg, a first-round pick in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, $15 million, and future considerations.11] As the agreed-upon trade included the Flyers sending a 1992 draft pick to Quebec which Philadelphia instead kept because the trade was not yet finalized, Bertuzzi helped the teams agree that the Flyers would send Chris Simon and a pick in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft to Quebec to compensate for the 1992 draft pick that the Flyers kept[28] and used to select LW Ryan Sittler.
From Wiki
Trading for McDavid wouldnt be one or two pieces. It would be something along the lines of two young studs (all star level), 2 top prospects a couple firsts and a veteran or two.
So think Scheifele, Connor, Niku, Veselainen, a couple firsts and Little and Pionk