Nice job

Very interesting.... decent comparables

This is good!

Jimmy Carson scored 186 points as a teenager before being traded. Byfield is not a comparison

This is the closest he can come and stay within one team. Don't complain about things over which no one has any control.

Really great job! You think of some truly fascinating ideas to ponder and discuss.

I open any team construction you post, whereas normally, I stick to those five or six teams I have a strong interest in or posts with trades involving my two crummy local teams.

Your mcdavid trade is comparable to the trade for Gretzky

This is good but knowing what we know now, I wouldn't do this trade again. I'd keep McDavid unless he asks out

He also had HOFers Messier, Anderson,Kuri, Tikkanem.guys who were really top notch scorers like klima Graves,Gelinas Murphy and scoring was higher league wide then.

Carson wasn't on the Oilers during the period I was referencing. I was talking about before the trade. Hence saying " before being traded"

Every player you referenced in the 2nd group except for gelinas were traded FOR carson

I did one like this but it wasn’t as good lmao

You mean this?

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/537400



Comparing either RNH or Darnell Nurse to Marty McSorley is something else

It’s actually the author of the post’s fault that byfield didn’t score at a ridiculous pace in juniors

A couple things to consider as well.
Pocklington needed the money. That was the impetus for making the trade at all. Gretzky himself said he wasn't traded, he was sold.
The $15M Gretzky was sold for, is closer to $30M today, probably more considering the growth of the game. McDavid is easily worth more than that in marketing alone.
Trading McDavid for financial gain is no longer an option, nor does it make sense while he is basically printing money for the team.
If you remove the $15M aspect, that value would have to be accounted for in another way, namely a higher return. So I don't feel this goes far enough. A McDavid trade wouldn't be equivalent to a Gretzky trade, it would eclipse it.

Cash trades were barred in 2005 with the new salary cap CBA.

For the record, even though Pocklington "did well here," he still gets death threats to this day for making that trade.

Each and every single threat on his life has probably made Pocklington more entrenched in his belief that he did the right thing

YeH 😂

That is a great job comparing the two.
Eichel could have been compared to Lindros especially when one compares Jack and Eric NHL production:

Kerry Huffman, #20 overall 1986
Mike Ricci, 1 #4 overall 1990
Peter Forsberg, #6 overall 1991
round 1 pick in the 1993 draft,
round 1 pick in the 1994 draft
future considerations,
and cash
While also receiving three good NHL players.
Steve Duchesne,
Ron Hextall,
Chris Simon,
which was closer to what Gretzky received without adding Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley.
Can you imagine Lindros actually getting more than Gretzky?
How times have changed.

This was also before he even played a game.
A big part of it was saving face in Quebec. Lindros refusing to play there was bad PR. The whole thing was a mess with Quebec having two deals made and an arbitrator being brought in.
In the end, Quebec got a lot more than they should have for a player that they were never going to have anyway, and the league ended up abandoning Quebec shortly after.