Quoting: Juiceman
Right totally because having the better season is more important than the fact that Boeser has had the better career, is younger, and probably gonna be cheaper than Fiala. Terrible idea, lateral movement at best. It doesn’t make the team any better 🙄
Quoting: Knuckl3s
Fiala is not getting an AAV of 7M or higher, it's absolutely going to be under 7M
Wild have to add a 3rd round pick minimum to make that Vancouver trade work
I'm going to preface this by saying personally, I'm not really a fan of us trading for Boeser. I'd rather us use our assets to trade for an area of greater need. While Boeser may be an upgrade to some of the players we have, I think it would make a much more marginal difference than if we upgraded our center depth.
Now, a couple points here. Fiala is 7 months older than Boeser. Saying he's younger doesn't mean much when it's not even a year's difference. Saying Fiala's older without that context can make it sound like we're talking about trading Thornton for Horvat.
The other point I have, is about Juiceman's logic in terms of contract value. My belief, which Knuckl3s appears to agree with, is that Fiala is going to cost less than Boeser by a decent margin. Boeser's QO this offseason is $7.5 million. I don't see Fiala making over $7 million unless he does something insane in the back half of the season and even then, it's probably a stretch. Last offseason, the projections for his value on a 5 year contract were in the range of about $6.1-6.5 million. Considering the fact that his QO is at least $1 million higher than that, I don't see how he ends up cheaper than Fiala.