*sigh*

Montreal isn't interested, as we have plenty of wingers on the roster already.
Make it a 2nd round pick, and we might consider it.

You just spend a PILE of assets making the team worse. What were you thinking?

That makes no sense. They aren't interested paying a 4th but might be if the price was higher?

Bad wording on my part. I meant add a 2nd on top of Foegele, and we might consider it.

Foegele scores at a 1st line rate while being paid like a 3rd liner. Your valuations are exactly backwards. Tampa paid two 1sts ++ for Hagel, who isn't as effective a player as Foegele is. You'd have to start with Florida's 1st and then add.

CBJ would consider that. Would probably only be willing to give the 3rd for Kulak, but it will depend on who else they could get and what the market shapes up to be during and after the draft.

I'm afraid your evaluation of Foegele makes him a luxury we can't afford in Montreal. But I wish you all the best in your negociations with other teams.

The only thing close to true in that paragraph is that he's paid like a 3rd liner.

I want to keep him.

Warren Foegele is among the best in the league at generating scoring chances.

[A little context for my stats. I took full season 5v5 stats and applied two filters: forwards only and minimun TOI of 495 minutes. That leaves us with the top 385 players by minutes played. Why 385? Because there are 32 teams and each with 12 regular forwards. 32 x 12 = 384, so pretty close. This way we can divide results by "1st line" (top 96 players), "2nd line" (97-192), etc. All stats are expressed as "per 60 minutes" to equalize for TOI differences.]

So here's how Foegele stacks up:

G/60: 0.93 (84th, tied with Panarin) 1st line rate
P/60: 2.09 (85th, tied with Tavares) 1st line rate
S/60: 9.36 (50th, tied with Cozens) 1st line rate
xG/60: 1.16 (9th, tied with Tavares) elite 1st line rate
SCF/60: 10.90 (23rd) elite 1st line rate
HDCF/60: 6.19 (8th), elite 1st line rate
Tka/60: 3.63 (3rd), elite 1st line rate
Hits/60: 7.11 (108th tied with Kreider) high 2nd line rate

Now consider that he spent just 8% of his TOI with McDavid this year. Foegele is a value contract. He scores at a 1st line rate while being paid like a 3rd liner.

He's a 3rd line winger and being deployed as such, averaging under 13 minutes a game, against lesser competition, with McDavid and Draisaitl drawing the hardest matchups.
At 12 minutes a game you only need 2 points every 5 games to hit those rates, that's not 1st line production. You're comparing apples with oranges.

He did play on the 3rd line, that's why his 27 points at 5v5 are so impressive. Only Suzuki had more for Montreal, for instance. And while you can point to lesser competition, he also had lesser linemates to work with too. He would be a 1st liner in Montreal. His impressive scoring combined with his top-10 chance generation + size + speed + physicality + low cap hit makes him a valuable player for any team. He won't be cheap.

Then he won't be going anywhere.
He's simply not a 1st liner and is only a complementary 2nd line option but he's too low on the depth chart to even get use there.
A surplus and replaceable player for the Oilers and nobody is giving up anything near a 1st, while the Oilers would be satisfied just to move him to bring in someone cheaper.
His 2 assists in 21 playoff games really kills his value. If anyone wanted him, it would be due to the perception he could excel in playoff style hockey and provide offense from the 3rd line.

Good! I want to keep him.

He's a complimentary top-6 player the same way Hyman is a complimentary top-6 player. His 78 IPP tells me he's actually driving play in the bottom-6, not a complimentary player at all.