Quoting: NHLfan10506
I have not seen anything suggesting Alexander Holtz will be available.
Send a link if you have.
I think the Buchnevich and Reinhart trades should serve as baseline comps.
I would be shocked if a top-10 pick or a top-10 prospect is in play.
And yet there have been multiple articles and comments by beat writers and insiders alike, like Michael Russo and Elliott Friedman that Dorion is open to moving the 7th OVA pick for a player like Fiala and have attached his name to it as a likely trade target.
Last I checked. That's a top 10 pick.
Furthermore, Fiala's name was attached to the Devils 1st back when it was still the 5th OVA. By multiple insider's, including Friedman.
Again, a top ten pick.
Regardless of it no longer being available given its change to being the 2nd OVA now. It was still considered to be in play for Fiala while it was still the 5th. If Dorion is open to moving the 7th OVA for Fiala, a prospect like Holtz who was taken at that same spot two years ago is of comparable value. That's just common sense at work. That's where that comes from.
Then, in their most recent articles. Both Michael Russo and Kevin Kurz suggested that the likely framework for a trade to the Isles would center around the 13th OVA and either one of Wahlstrom or Raty. And that's coming from both teams own beat-writers.
Sure, the Isles offer speculation may not be a top-10 pick. But it's still a hell of a lot more than either the Reinhart or Buchnevich comps would suggest he would bring back. Which is why they don't fit very well.
Those comps may be the closest idea we have for what's at hand. But that doesn't mean they're particularly close or right as to what will actually happen. They're simply the only ones that are out there. By all accounts it sounds as if Fiala's value is much higher than those comps, as it should be. Neither Reinhart or Buchnevich were coming off of 33 goal 80+ point seasons at over a PPG at the time of their trades. Fiala is. If they were, they would of gotten far more back in return for what they did in actuality.
Again, common sense.