Edited Feb. 24, 2020 at 11:33 p.m.
Quoting: Bf3351
GM would keep his job just find buddy
Can't decipher your words, but finally the trade happend. So let's see:
In the end: Washington is expected to be top 4 in the league so or make conference finals, so i just use last year's draft pick as example:
2019 3rd round pick (WSH - #87 - Lukas Parik)
2019 4th round pick (BUF - #98 - Matias Maccelli)
Any difference between all those players?
So it's essentially a 4th round draft pick.
But then you have to include the retention: Which is usually worth like a lot. Most teams just don't do retentions, they just don't... unless you pay for it...
In this case let's just say, 1 round, cause it's only 350k $.
End result:
gets: true value around ~ 5th round draft pick ( =95% that this draft pick never plays in NHL)
gets: Kovalchuk, who wants to get a 5 million $ contract again... 3.5mill $ + 1.5 mill $ bonus for next year or 2... = greedy for money at age of 35+ and defensive liabiliy as a forward
Washington will let him go walk to UFA after season is over.... so it's a rental for essentially for a real expert(like Washington's gm in this case) ~ 5th round pick.
GM can keep his job, overpayed, but still worth a shot, if he can help to score some goals in the playoffs...
Bergevin did alright, turned nothing into a lottery ball...
So just as i expected(late round draft pick) = not even close to 2nd rounder ( like a 40th-50th pick = gold in the draft sometimes).
Between pick Nr 40 and 100 is insane difference, by getting gems in the draft... it's really hard to hit with Nr 100th pick...
Once again easy prediction... rip 2nd round value (around ~ nr 50th pick = good chance to be a solid NHL player in this year's draft)
In the end turned out that you're the troll here afterall... and
my analysis about him was spot on = super low value, even after he put up 0.5 points/game in 1 month...
TLDR: Without retention this draft pick is esentially a 4th round pick: Nr 90th pick in daft ---> + retention = ~ 5th round pick