Quoting: Sabres_Insider
No fantasy world? Wdym
What I mean is that there is NO executive in any front office in the NHL in his right mind who would exchange Fiala for any one of Olofsson, Asplund or Thompson, and probably not TWO of them.
Olofsson has played only 127 games in the NHL while Fiala has played 356 despite being a full year younger. In his 127 games, Olofsson has 40 goals and 49 assists for 89 points. Meanwhile, in his last three seasons with Minnesota, Fiala has 46 goals and 60 assists for 106 points in 133 games. Do you really think that they are equivalent?
Asplund and Thompson are only a year younger than Fiala, and haven't shown anything like his upside. In 76 games, Asplund is scoring at a 1/3-pt-per-game pace, while Thompson, although he is now finally showing some signs of life, hasn't proven he's even NHL calibre yet (164 games and only 48 -- forty-eight!! -- points).
In short, the idea that any of those three players is more valuable than Kevin Fiala is utterly delusional.