Vegas does improve in the short term here, but with how little leverage Dorion has, I'm sure you could get EK for less. Also, don't play guys on their off sides.
Quoting: NickC1988
Two top 4 D, a top 6 F (All under the age of 27), a first, and an LTIR cap hit for Karlsson and a horrible contract? Not a chance Vegas makes this move.
Talent quality is vastly more important than talent quantity for two reasons:
1. You only get to play 20 players, so any loss of quantity is partially balanced by the contributions of the players who replace them. This is especially true for Vegas, where they have a couple CHLers who could contribute next year.
2. A team's best player affects its results more than its worst player. Put differently: it's more important to have the best player on the ice than it is to not have the worst player on the ice. Given that EK came back, they only lost the strong link for their third pair, which isn't a big loss for how much of an upgrade EK is as the strong link for the top pair.
Taken together, these mean that it's nearly always a good idea to trade talent quantity for talent quality.
The first is nothing. Once you're out of the top 15-20, firsts aren't any better than any other pick. This team is not picking in the top-20.
27 is a pretty arbitrary age cutoff. Players peak at age 24 and plateau until 30, in general.
Quoting: VRCR
I really don’t understand why everyone keeps thinking an EK trade makes sense at this point for us. Losing Theodore, Tuch, Miller, etc. for EK and Ryan doesn’t make our team any better. I’m seriously tired of these trades when there are plenty of other trades that could be made to actually improve our chances of competing. I don’t mean to be negative toward the poster or the value, it’s just that I’m tired of people trying this scenario.
Vegas's core (Marchessault, Smith, Haula, Schmidt, Karlsson) is pretty much all in its prime with only a few years until decline starts (Marchessault, Smith and Schmidt are all 27). Their window is actually pretty limited. Smart play for Vegas is to go all-in with the cap space it has in the time it has left with this core, and EK's the strongest link on the market right now.
That said, I think OTT would prefer Glass/Suzuki to Miller right now. They want prospects more than guys already in their prime.