Quoting: gmgb
Top goalies in their prime *literally* NEVER get traded. FLA got a haul (at least it looked like one, at the time) for Luongo in '06. NSH got a 1st, and two 2nds for Vokoun in '07, despite negotiating from a position of weakness, with the other GMs knowing the owner mandated a huge cost cutting sell-off. VAN got a top ten pick in '13 for Schneider, who wasn't even a starter yet.
And none of those are anywhere close to the bananas offer proposed above
1- Saros has a year left after this, which means that no extension can be signed before a trade
2- that means, the team who might trade for him is taking a HUGE RISK that he’ll sign (lowering his trade value bc of the uncertainty) and will have to basically give Saros whatever he wants (again, lowering his trade value)
3- not many teams that would want Saros can afford the HUGE contract he’ll demand, which lowers the team’s realistically bidding on him (AGAIN, lowering his trade value)
4- and even lowering the teams bidding on him even further,
how many will wanna give a 30year old goalie(his age when this contract is up) an 8year extension for HUGE $$$ that Saros will dictate???
Guess what that does to his trade value?!
This isn’t gonna be a situation where u have half the league bidding on him
NSH will be lucky to have 2 or 3 teams seriously interested
He’s not gonna get traded for a haul
Maybe that means he’s not traded at all
But u guys are NUTS thinking NSH is gonna get some massive return- it will not happen