Quoting: Rino911
Your not understanding the point. He does not want to stay in Columbus for his full two years on his contract. Which after his contract is up he turns into a RFA. Which also he is a very elite player but not everyone will be shopping for him due to the cap being flat. I also thing we shouldn’t even go for him because we had to sign Igor, foxy and zibby the year he is a RFA.
Okay, so he doesn’t want to stay in columbus. So what? Who cares? He doesn’t want to be there two years from when he’s an RFA? So what? Go sign an offer sheet. He won’t because columbus can just match.
Let’s say fox tweeted out tomorrow “turns out I hate it here, I don’t want to be in NYC.” Awesome player, team control for a while. What would you be saying if everyone was offering a third pair d, a third center, a late first, and some prospect for him? Would you be saying, “welp, he wants out, guess the rangers need to take this deal!”
It’s a flaw in your logic.
There is zero motivation for the jackets to move PLD for below a very high valuation of his market value.