Your valuation on everything is very polar. Massive overpays on Rutta and DeSmith, underpay on Nuke, both trades are declined fairly easily

The price for DeBrincat is way higher than that, and not remotely worth it.

FA signings are almost always overpayment. Could count the amount of reasonable payments in a off season probably with one hand.

Evolving Hockey is almost always withing 500k of FA signings with their projections. They have Nuke signing for around 6.5M and the other 2 arpund 2.5M.

UFA contracts are pretty consistent with results, occasionally there is an overpayment and a few steals but generally not the case

Not a chance that CHI trade happens. Bert is a big red flag machine right off the bat. And it just isn't enough in general. Cat will return more than Eichel or he won't be moved.

Detroit isn't going to trade three assets to get one and absolutely not for a winger.

‘Bert is a red flag.’ Why b/c he stood up for his believes in a climate that was so severely mishandled and blown out of proportion? With other leagues opening up Covid restrictions, NHL should be following suite before the next season so hopefully no barriers to where he can play.

Debrincat is not going to return Eichs value but agreed he’s worth more.

Not because he stood up for his beliefs. It is because what he believes is stupid and dangerous. Not to mention, bringing in more controversy and distraction is the last thing CHI needs to be doing. As I said, he will return more than Eichel or he won't be moved.

Agreed on the controversy aspect, didn’t consider that. Disagree that what he did was stupid. And I’m not an anti-vaxer for the record, fully vaccinated and had it way back when. If you look at the big picture how Covid was handled, I don’t blame the guy for not wanting to get vaccinated and rolling with the natural immunity. With most pro leagues and places opening up, NHL and Canada should be following suite so his lack of extension would be a better value argument than Covid.

I didn’t interpret your post that way. But get what you’re saying now (slightly altered to better fit how I should’ve interpreted it):

“And it just isn't enough in general. Cat won’t be moved unless he receives an overpayment on par with Eichs return.”

Similar to how most Wings fans felt about Bert last year and Larks (not Eichs value tho, just overpayment mentioning).

Aaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha this didn't age well looks like I would have overpayed.

As I said to the other guy. I would have overpayed. He could have been had for much less.

Right? What an absolute joke. Our new GM talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk. What an absolute moron for taking that offer.

Yeah I'm pretty shocked by the return. I was never super high on DeBrincat but I thought Chicago was haha