Quoting: Rob32sjsharks
The guy your team has as a healthy scratch is more valuable than Hertl? Seriously????
Look I get this isn’t permanent and he’s likely back in soon but you guys kinda shot yourself in the foot value wise by benching him!
That being said Laine + Boqvist or Peeke and a 2nd seems like a reasonable value right now.
benching him while he's struggling after he missed three weeks and rejoined a team that is absolutely cratering does not mean that they need to move him, or that they need to move him right now, or that they are going to try to move him. even if they were trying to move him (which they aren't) it wouldn't make any sense to do that now, while his value is at a low point. he's played nine games this year.
and yes, he is more valuable than hertl – and i say that as someone who likes hertl.
laine is five entire years younger than hertl and is coming off a two-year stretch where, despite missing time with injuries, he put up 108 points in a 111 game stretch. hertl has only come close to that pace one season, and that was six years ago. on top of all that, last year laine had the best defensive impacts of any blue jackets forward and hertl's contract has much more room to turn into a disaster.
again, i like hertl as a blue jackets target, but even laine in a one-for-one would be bad business for columbus.