Quoting: justaBoss
Well Iafallo's latest season was close to equivalent to that of Burakovsky. Pretty much the same amount of points, although he played more games, in a worse team though. I don't think you'd trade Zadorov for Burakovsky, no?
Would Iafallo fit in the TOP6 in COL? Probably not.
Also I don't think Zadorov's value is 2nd+3rd, but that's just me. There's so many LHDs available at this point that their trade value is fairly low. Can't think of any team who would pay that price for Zadorov.
Appreciate your reply, thanks.
Regarding the Iafallo/Burakovsky comparison, I think that's a rather disingeneous comparison to make considering that Iafallo played almost 4:00 more on average, and also played a lot on the top line with Kopitar and Brown.
Iafallo.......... 43 points in 70 games (50.3 point pace), with 18:56 ATOI..... 2:28 PP TOI
Burakovsky: 45 points in 58 games (63.6 point pace), with 15:12 ATOI.... 2:23 PP TOI
At the time of the trade for Burakovsky he was also only 24, and had been playing in reduced minutes (11:08 ATOI in 2018/19), so there was more room for a breakout, certainly compared to Iafallo who has played almost 19:00 on the top line, albeit on a worse team.
I guess Iafallo would slot in on the 3rd line and Donskoi would stay on the 2nd line. He's probably too-low of a calibre forward for Colorado to be interested (a proper top 6 forward is what we really need), but I thought I'd gauge that idea anyways.
Regarding Zadorov I think you could be right about a 2nd + 3rd being a bit ambitious. I could see plenty of teams being interested though (eg. Florida, Detroit, Buffalo, NYR, New Jersey, LA, Calgary, and Winnipeg to name a few). The market will indeed be flooded with LHD's, but Zadorov is a unique commodity so I don't think that should affect his value too much.