Quoting: Riddick19
What fantasy world are you living in???!!! $10M for Tavares is market value?? Lets see.... Nazem Kadri signed 7 years for how much? I'll just tell you.... $7M/7years.... How many points again did Kadri record? 87 points. Okay one player right? How about Zibanejad? $8.5M/7yrs.... 81 points and is younger, faster, more physical.... Barkov recently signed for $10M/8yrs... Do not try and put Tavares in Barkov's territory. Tavares is an $8M/yr player not $10M... and is $3M at least overpaid, and most would constitute that as MASSIVE overpayment in a hard cap league. You telling me Dubas' hands would still be just as tied if they had that $3M?
Patches is a player on a "win-now" team much like Toronto, could you imagine!!!! What would happen in Toronto if Marner got sent to Carolina for future considerations? That is what Vegas was faced with. Toronto basically did it, just in many different parts as opposed to one massive piece being dumped, Toronto downgraded in many areas so they didn't have to do it the way Vegas did.
Of the 3 centre’s you just mentioned, Kadri was the only free agent, there is a premium for free agents, Zibby and Sasha re-signed, that lowers their contract value, and Kadri is a bad example as no one wanted him at the value he was looking for 7x10.5 and he’s FOUR years older than JT when he signed. If you want a comparable to why I say a 31 y/o JT would have a market value of 10 million, which I very clearly stated isn’t a figure I made up it’s based off the Atheltic’s model which factors age and production, Huberdeau just signed for 10.5, and he 1. plays a less valuable position, that’s objective. 2. is significantly better defensively, Huberdeau is a liability. 3. Has historically scored more goals than Huberdeau. Huberdeau’s only claim to his pay day was this season, in which league scoring was in a cap-era high.
Getting to your “Marner could have hypothetically been traded for futures if the Leafs were in the Knights situation” Tkachuk was just traded for a better winger and a top 15 defenceman while not having a contract, it doesn’t matter if the Leafs are 82 million over the cap, Marner wouldn’t be traded for futures, that’s an illogical argument.