Once a Kings Fan Too
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Travis Konecny and Mitch Marner are both high-quality 26-year-old RWs with two years left on their contracts. Marner is by far a more productive scorer and better defensively than Konecny, but you can get two Konecny's for the price of one Marner, cap-hit-wise. Moreover, Konecny's raise is going to be a lot less difficult to absorb than Marner's, so a team is far more likely to be able to re-up Konecny than Marner when their contracts expire at the same time. And if they switched teams, I can see them scoring the same total of 160 points this season as they did last season, but I bet it would be split a lot more evenly. That being said, why should Philadelphia pay a high-value developing young forward and the seventh overall pick in this year's draft for the privilege of seeing Mitch Marner instead of Travis Konecny walk in 2025?