Maybe other Canes will be interested but I don’t have any interest paying Draisaitl 13-14 million per for 8 years.

Oh I totally get that but in a few years with the cap it may not be as bad

Underselling on both need to add at least another 1st to each of those

Reality is this isn’t the nba and teams are not going to completely decimate their rosters and futures for one player.

When was the last time a team gave up that much and it worked out for them?

We'll take McDavid

McDavid and Draisaitl are untradeable.

Any realistic trade that a team would be willing to give up would result in Ken Holland getting the Peter Pocklington treatment. He'd have his Canadian citizenship revoked and have to live out his life in exile in Palm Springs, receiving death threats half a century later.

Any trade that wouldn't get Holland fired would completely destroy the franchise that was trading for him. They'd have absolutely no players, prospect pipeline or high round picks left, and as has been demonstrated in Edmonton, one (or even two) superstar player(s) isn't enough to build a Stanley Cup winner.

McDavid and Draisaitl will either play in Edmonton their entire careers, or they will walk for nothing a la John Tavares when their contracts are up.

I don’t think many, if any, team is going to destroy their roster just to bring in one of McDvaid or Draisaitl. Every team will be looking at those UFA classes before even considering a trade.

I felt this was a decent balance of not decimating rosters while giving oilers good pieces

I don’t even know what a leafs trade could begin to look like. I don’t think marner is a guarantee to stay if traded to Edmonton and not enough blue chip youngsters otherwise