Edited Sep. 11, 2021 at 10:55 a.m.
Quoting: mokumboi
1- I said no such thing, and for the billionth time, the market is not set by what one stupid GM does. Besides, your "facts" are entirely cherry-picked.
2- Army has already stated more than once that he's content to start the season with Tarasenko in the team, and Tarasenko is currently skating with the team. Not sure what;s confusing about that.
3- First of all, they might have taken some draft pick package (though perhaps not that one) prior to free agency. Now, they will be content to wait out the interested parties until someone offers something they want. Armstrong is not going to be Shanghai-ed, which I feel everyone should be well aware of by now.
4- Setting aside the laughable assertion that you speak for "the vast majority" of hockey fans, having a lot of people side with you is not at all any measure of thought quality, as the entire history of humanity has constantly demonstrated. And even if it did automatically make you and the masses "right" (for now, at least), that means nothing to Army. Right or wrong, he does it his way. And frankly, right now, his way on this matter is the best way.
1- You said "
A late 2nd and late 3rd ain;t gonna do it, either, and I think we all know that." And then you also don't say that Tarasenko has more value than Arvidsson and Buchnevich? Pretty contradicting
2- I don't follow the Blues so wouldn't know but great if everyone is ok with that, it kinda buys out time
3- As I said above, if they can live with the situation, it buys out time. Re-evaluate at the deadline. Maybe it'll be easier to trade him next off-season, when he'll have only one year left and his salary won't be $9,500,000 (which diminish his value significantly as it's a lot of real dollars for everybody)
4- It's not that I speak for "the vast majority" of hockey fans, but I have the ability to READ, so this is a general observation based on what most hockey fans (not just on this website) don't want to give up for Tarasenko (because of reasons already mentionned). Just in this very thread, 5 people talked about it, 3 agree with me, the other one is you.
I think what's laughable is people who can't see reality when it's right in front of them. We have seen a lot of that during the pandemic. To each their own.
Also, the "as the entire history of humanity has constantly demonstrated" comment is quite ridiculous. Most people are not earth flatteners, most people are not covidiots/anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers, most people think nazis were evil, most people think racism is bad, we could go all day
Weren't you the person who told me was 52 y/o? If that's the case, pretty puzzling that you still have that teenager mentality. We all thought like that at some point.