Quoting: Avs21
Hi!
You have piqued my interest here. How do you value Sharangovich and McLeod?
Using a draft pick value chart and isolated value i would say that this is a slight overpay in my opinion. Therefore i’m genuinely interested in your assessment
Hey dude.
My opinion on OP's suggested Devils trade doesn't derive from a purely value based perspective, i'm also considering need, fit and unrealized upside.
I'm assuming you're going by the GSVA pick value chart so the arithmetic is fairly straightforward for Yegor alone, as a stand alone asset I'd price Sharangovich at about an early 2nd rd pick (or pick #27 = Yegor + #80). Note that I'm not valuing Yegor equivalent to his 22-23 GSVA impact of 0.6, I think his true value should be a bit higher than that.
As for McLeod, I've been one of his biggest detractors going back 3-4 years now, but since January he's been playing at levels way above normal.
McLeod also showed up in a rather massive way in the playoffs. There are signs that McLeod may carve out a niche role on this Devils team where his value to the team isn't fully captured by public analytical modeling, as such I'd very much like the Devils to hang on to McLeod for now and make him the Devils long-term 4C / PK specialist.
Furthermore, I don't perceive Malgin to have any value whatsoever for the Devils as Boqvist, Foote, Clarke and Lazar will all be fighting for 1-2 spots in the Devils bottom six, all of which ranging between having the same or way more upside than Malgin. And the 3rd rd pick in 2025 doesn't make up for the rest.
So for me it comes down to that I'd be very hesitant to give McLeod up at this point in time. I think it'd have to be a 1st rd pick equivalent of value offered for me to be happy with letting him go, which I understand is an overpay as far as the market and public modelling is concerned.
I'm not too bothered with the Devils trading Sharangovich however, as long as they get decent value for him. Though the Devils might just as well just QO him at 2.05m themselves, keep him in the team and figure out next summer what they want to do with him long-term.