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Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 10:54 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 3:10 p.m.
Thread: Easton Cowens Team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>shucket</b></div><div>What I don’t understand look at the haul Dubois got, and Marner is gonna be traded for nothing?</div></div>
What you don't understand is that there's a third theory governing Marner trades, which is the one to which most of us outside Leafs Nation subscribe: in addition to (1) Marner should get what you think he's worth, and (2) Marner is going to get a lot less than what you think he's worth, there's (3): Marner isn't going to get what you think he's worth because almost teams can't afford it, i.e., <strong>he'll cost too much</strong>.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>shucket</b></div><div>People think since he has a NMC and gets to pick where he wants to go he holds no value. If he’s available 31 teams will try and make it work and you’ll be surprised the amount of assets they give up for him when they do.</div></div>
(1) That's not what most people think, in large part because (2) very few people think that Marner holds no value. On the contrary: the reason why people decline proposed Marner trades, 9 times out of 10, it's because the cost of paying to acquire him is too high. That's because he's the inevitable result of the by-now-discredited theory of constructing a roster by concentrating a gigantic and inordinate amount of cap space in a very few ultra-high-quality assets.
Forum: Fauteuil - DGThu. at 11:57 a.m.