Lenny7
Rejoint: janv. 2017
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These Nylander-Chychrun trades that have been on here make very little sense to me. Don't get me wrong, Nylander is an excellent player, but if you were guaranteed to be a bottom 5 team next year with or without Nylander, would you:
A) Trade Chychrun for the pick/prospect haul that he should command, giving you a whole bunch of team control over future players
Or,
B) Trade Chychrun for Nylander, who is under contract for 2 years before he walks as a UFA?
Sure, with B, you could always flip Nylander down the road, but why not just skip that step? There's about a 0% chance that Nylander's value is going to improve playing down there, especially as the contract gets closer to the end, which ends up just being extremely poor asset management on Arizona's part. Any combination of a decline in offence, an injury, poor usage, etc. turns this gamble into a huge L.