That’s not what I said. You said that “if he wants out, it will dampened the return”. I said that looking at the Eichel deal as not accepting a subpar, or dampened, should be what Van would do. One could argue you put a package together that is less than what Eichel got, depending on if you are into futures or not.

And isn’t the return dependent upon the player? Like if Eichel got x return, which would be a lot, wouldn’t we still expect McDavid to return more in a hypothetical deal? Or going back to EP, we would expect more for him him because he’s better. So a deal for x player isn’t indicative of a deal of y player regardless of the how much you value that initial return. They are all independent, would you not agree?

brother those were your own words, you wanted an Eichel esque return, and said this was better than Eichel return, and Petey is better than eichel thus the return being better. Yes I agree

Canucks pass.
Petey is not going anywhere.

we will quite literally get to see it in real time this season depending on how the Canucks do

I'm hoping he stays.
But we'll see what will happen in the 2023-2024 season.
Fingers cross.

I wish you the best of luck, I love Petey

Yes my own words in a response to you saying that this proposal is in effect of Van being put in a situation by EP where they’re forced to sell low (or help out SJ, paraphrasing your words), not necessarily in direct response to the proposal at all. I’m simply saying that they shouldn’t be strong armed by EP if they are forced to sell him at all.