Rejoint: juill. 2018
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This deal is likely going to be rough. I know people think this somehow alters the value of the trade, but honestly I think it makes it worse, as this contract has a strong chance to age like Milk.
Horvat is a very good player, but he's having a career year at 27, and the 8.5M AAV won't be bad for a few years necessarily, but he's probably not outplaying it by much, and those later years didn't bring the AAV down nearly enough. What's worse is that this seems to be a big bet that he and Barzal will have instant chemistry and completely change the Islanders ability to create offense at 5 on 5 and on the powerplay. Horvat isn't a driver of offense, and he's going from a team that had more offensive talent surrounding him that he is going to have now, playing an offense-first style, and who was still pretty mediocre offensively, to a team where he's now going to have to be the complete focus of the attack in a tougher conference. What makes this trade bad is that Horvat could play at the higher end of his reasonable expectations, and this trade is still awful. He basically needs to be a 50+ goal center for the foreseeable future for this to be remotely acceptable. Lou seemingly paid a lot of assets to get a jump on the market, and this is the deal he gets from that?