Kessel should get better than that at 50%

Ok. A 1st and a 2nd it is. Don't care

If Klingberg says that there is a -% chance that he resigns and the Stars are in last place in the league then they might accept that

Or if the stars are going to miss the playoffs, he goes for a playoff run and then resigns with the stars in the offseason. Don't care

Add Liljegren and another high end pick/prospect

For a rental Klingberg? Not interested

Why would we sell him as a rental? We can sign him and move him before his new deal starts

In theory, yes you could. In realty, you will not. It will be either a new deal negotiated and keep him or they sell him as a rental

Then Nill should be fired for not getting full value for him. Did Columbus trade Jones as a rental? Sure didn’t

I am not sure why trading a player as a rental is a fireable offense... Its up to the club trading for the player whether they want/can extend him or if they just use him as a rental.

For example, Chicago traded for Jones with only 1 year remaining on his current contract (this is called a rental) and then Chicago extended him. Had Chicago not extended him, Jarmo Kekäläinen should have been fired... Ya, that checks out

Lol. Do you really think Chicago paid that much to get him if they didn’t already have an extension negotiated?? GMs allow other teams to talk to the players before hand so they can get maximum value. The extension comes after the trade because it has to not because it was negotiated after. Your thought process that we would trade Klinger to you for rental price assumes none of the other teams in the league would pay full price with a contract negotiated ahead of time. Unlikely but hey whatever works for you

All I am saying is that a lot of players get traded at the deadline without a negotiated extension in place. Yes, you could possibly get more if a team wants to trade more assets to get the player they can sign for 8 years but in the vast majority of cases, many teams will keep more of their prized assets and just sign the player for 7 years a couple months down the road...

Many times in those extensions, it is for a team that the player already wants to play for. For Seth Jones, he made it clear that there were only a couple teams that he would be willing to sign an extension with. The team willing to pay the most and the team the player wants to play for are also not always the same... Since Klingberg doesn't have a NTC/NMC, he can be traded to literally any team in the league