Quoting: Timmah007
Why would holland sell for less? Any team interested would be doing so for a top six role so your not going to sell him as a depth piece doesn’t make any sense. Ask is high for a reason zero reason to drop it zero urgency to do anything.
Because no one is paying that price at it's current state.
By the same token, if he declines to join EDM team (which I certainly hope), his value is going to keep dropping as he ages. At 22 he can still be considered a decent prospect. At 24+, if he doesn't smash it in Finland, no one will be interested to pay nothing but scraps for his rights. Probably not even that.
It's like the Bracco effect, really. Leafs fans widely considered him to be a great prospect last year after scoring in high rate in AHL at 22, valuing him even as high as a first rounder. Now after a bit weaker season at 23, they'd settle for a 5th.
Granted it doesn't mean anything in actual business, but one could consider it a fact that no one is interested to join Pulju sweepstakes at it's current price. If teams were, he had already been traded.