After how Hayton broke out at the mid wayish point of the season, I can’t see Arizona trading him not unless it was quite a substantial overpay.

Once the coach finally gave him the chance to play in the top 6 he thrived big time, his 2 way upside is also a big positive.

Personally I think they are looking at Hayton and Cooley for their top 6 centers of the future

It's an interesting valuation. IMO, AZ still declines since it's less risky and more projectable to just keep Hayton.

But I do think it's a good post. Given that AZ is still years away from being truly competitive, it becomes a question of projection. In 4-5 years, would you rather have Hayton OR Lambos + one of [Ritchie, Musty, Cristall, Edstrom, Honzek, etc.]

Ultimately comes down to how highly AZ views Lambos and the 18-25 range of the draft, but that's still too hard to project against the known commodity of Hayton.

Hayton isn't worth this at all! Overvaluing his worth.

I’m overvaluing a guy who is a future 1C? Is only 22, is ready to make the top 6 jump? I think its pretty fair, other than Cooley he will be AZ best center of the future, he is most definitely worth this, and he’s not just good offensively but he can play defense too, I think its fair, a late first, a middle-top prospect, and Foligno is a cap dump tbh, but seems fair to me

They could always use the pick they would receive here to trade up too, But I see where you’re coming from, projections can be risky and Hayton has shown sparks of being able to make the jump to a top 6 guy already, so its most definitely less risky

For sure, that's a good point - I mean, AZ does already have picks 6 and 12 in this draft, so they may be content with that. But if you add 21 + Lambos, there's no question you can do a lot of quick work to backfill Hayton. I think it's a good proposal. I do think AZ declines, but it's definitely a good post and there's plenty of meat on the bone.

Hayton better make a quantum leap in his development next season if you are offering that much for him!!

If you watched him in the back half of the season when AZ’s coach actually put him in the top 6 he did make that jump to be offered that much