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You want to draw some kind of big difference in value between a player with 30 games on his contract vs a guy with 100 games on his contract just b/c a generally accepted term in hockey like “rental” makes no sense.....but to avoid that debate around the definition or understanding of a word i’ll just not use the word and talk games on a contract so there is zero semantics or bias from either side.
Yes there's a HUGE difference between 30 and 100 games. It's the difference between one guaranteed playoff run then hitting free agency and a guaranteed playoff run and another guaranteed season after and time to negotiate a new deal and another possible playoff run depending on how that season goes. It's 20+ games to finish this season, plus playoffs (a non playoff team isn't trading for McDonagh, so the preface of trading for him is to put you in that elite tier of teams in terms of chances to win it all) and then 82 games next year and possibly (most likely) playoffs next year.
I've had my differences with you in many threads over the years, but I know you're more than smart enough to know that you're reaching here. You can't possibly be telling me that there's not a huge difference between 30 to roughly 130-150, depending on performance. To further illustrate my point, conditions are often applied to draft picks in trades for this very reason.
He has roughly 100 games on his contract....that’s it. I’m saying it is very unlikely chevy pays a kings ransom like we’ve seen here for a guy with a 100 games on his current contract and the significant chance the player signs elsewhere at the end of his deal. Add to that fact he will be 30 at the time of his new deal starting and we’ve all seen many guys play start to fall off starting at 30.
108 would be the bare minimum of games that he has left, provided he was traded to Winnipeg and Winnipeg does not make the playoffs next season and gets swept in 4 games in the first round this year. If Winnipeg were to sweep through the playoffs, he would have 38 games left this year and 82, which is 120 next season, provided they don't make the playoffs next season, 124 if they get swept in the first round next year and 136 if they sweep through the playoffs and win again.
You're selling the numbers far too short. If you have a problem with the age, that's fine, but the argument that you have about his term is simply not valid. There is a HUGE difference, because it not only gives you another season, it gives time to agree to a new deal and if necessary, move cap to facilitate that new deal.
Don’t get me wrong or misunderstand my posts i like McD he’s a good player, love to have him but not willing to mortgage the future for the huge risk that he represents. But i hope you get someone to pay you what you want, i just hope it’s not the jets.
That's fine, I respect that. It just doesn't make the other things you've said accurate. You could have said this from the start and not said the other things and we wouldn't have even had this discussion.