Quoting: sensonfire
I beg to differ.
1. I'd rather have Brady signed to what his brother Matthew has than take on Marner.
2. Marner's contract has too much signing bonus money.
3. Marner has a NMC for the final 2 years of his contract.
If Pierre Dorion made this trade, he would be fired.
1. I'm not sure if you are saying B.Tkachuk at 7 mil is a good contract or not, but still. I get he does a lot of good things besides score, still, Landeskog just signed to 7mil, he plays a similar power forward type game to Tkachuk, maybe not as physical but many similar attributes, big body, moves pretty well, great off the cycle. Tkachuk has the potential of one day becoming the player Landeskog (big maybe) is but he's not there yet. I don't think 3.9mil in salary makes up for the value difference between Marner and Tkachuk.
2. True, but assuming this trade is made after this year, Marners total salary is around 8 mil for 24 mil in total for the remaining 3 years, he would've already been paid 41 million dollars of 65 million dollars he's owed. Even though the signing bonus is so large you are still paying him less the his cap hit and what he is worth.
3. Also true, but by the time Marner reaches his final two years of his contract I expect Ottawa will be a playoff team. You wouldn't move your best player anyway when you are competing for the playoffs.
You've made 2 pretty good points, but salary, signing bonus, NMC, etc. aside the value difference between Marner and Tkachuk is too big to be made up through all these technicalities, Marners value hasn't dropped off that much over one poor playoff performance. Tkachuk is a great complimentary player type and will be a very good player in this league, but he cannot drive his own line and produce like Marner can. The Dorion reference was simply just sarcasm, Dubas never in a million years would offer Marner for Tkachuk, so really this arguement is pointless.