I should have added how I broke down this trade to my earlier reply, or even in my description. I’m definitely interested in your thoughts regarding the fairness of value of this trade, even if the trade itself is unlikely to ever get done or doesn’t work for one of the teams.

My value breakdown:

Timmins and Rathbone are both 21 years old with top 4 projection. I give an edge to Timmins however as he is a RD (harder to find) and has a year in the AHL already under his belt (more experienced). I should also mention I have never seen Timmins or Rathbone play (as I doubt many others here have based on 2 NHL games played), so the value could be off here. This breakdown was based on reading articles and listening to way to much Vancouver sports talk radio, well my wife says it’s to much anyways...

In my opinion Demko definitely holds more value than Jost. Projected as a goalie of the future, in my opinion he’s a 1B to start next season but could very well be a solid #1 by seasons end. He’s proven he can play in high pressure games which is a huge positive for goalies and especially for COL as they should be contenders for years to come. In my opinion this more than balances the Timmins for Rathbone part of this trade and tilts the value in COL’s favour.

Boeser for Byram is definitely the interesting and risky part of this deal for both teams, but it’s the piece needed to bring it all together. Boeser is a young established 1st line winger with potential 40 goal upside, should at worst be a regular 30+ goal guy. Byram is unestablished but projected to be a top pair D with #1 upside, he is a valuable and hard to find piece. As stated in a later post, highly regarded D men can take awhile to establish themselves. Seth Jones is a good example of a very highly rated prospect that took a couple of years to establish himself.
With the trade being tilted in COL favour up to this point I feel this part of the trade brings it all together value wise.

It’s a BOLD trade which is why I proposed it, it makes for interesting conversation!

Your thoughts on value?

Virtanen posts a career year, Domi has down to average season, so now because they were "close" in points, they are supposed to be close in value? Get real. I'm not one of those guys who is going to point to Domi's 72 pts season thinking that it's his value (that season is definitely looking like the outlier), but Domi, making a fair assessment, is still a 50pts, give or take, top 6 forward, whereas Virtanen has never sniffed 40 pts yet.
There's nothing here for MTL to even consider.