Quoting: DirtyDangles
I'd love to see the stats that show Voracek is declining...oh wait, they show that he is the same he has been so you can throw out that garbage argument. Voracek has been producing way better at 5v5 that Gaudreau as well. CGY gets a top line player for a couple years in a retool. You know what a retool is right? A shuffling of players for other players trying to find the right mix. JG is walking from CGY in a year and if he was traded to the Flyers, the chances are he would re-sign with them therefor giving CGY a 1st + a top line RWer that they have really needed.
Imagine thinking that being north of 30 means you are worthless...sorry Ovi
A few things
1) if he was still so great why are you trying to trade him?
2) Ovi is most certainly an exception to the general trend. The stats are pretty clear that offensive primes the vast majority of the time is in the 20s
3) I had said Voracek was declining as his last 4 points per game in order are 1.04, 0.85, 0.81, 0.79. That's a pretty clear decline. However I note now upon rechecking that his ppgs before that are pretty widely fluctuating Between 0.74 and 0.99.
So perhaps he really just is in that range and that means in general he's just worse than I thought. So perhaps less than declining he just has never been a consistent point per game player instead fluctuating bwtween 0.75 and point per game.
4) regardless of all that. The most likely thing is he declined sooner rather than later. Anyone signing a 27ish year old for 8 years knows it's quite likely the last few won't be very good but it's worth it for the first few. If you don't understand aging I don't know what to tell you.
In the end it's bad value if you disagree that's okay