me2
Go ahead foot
Let's be honest. The Milan Lucic of 2010-2013 I think we can all agree is a great player and is someone who would be extremely useful on our team.
It's the Milan Lucic of last season that I think is pretty much worthless and will be overpaid. Let's see what he does this year in LA, but another 40 point quiet season and I would stay far away from him. If he puts up 25+ goals and 60+ points and returns to being an unstoppable force on the ice then yeah, let's bring him in. But I doubt we ever see that player again.
That is half of it. Playing with Kopitar is the other half. I expect him to bounce back quite a bit, and that will drive his asking price up but also make him more likely to stay in LA or maybe chase a different contender who might go full Benning. I'd be asking myself "was 14-15 an off year or is it the Kopitar effect". How much do you factor in deterioration though age for his 30s of does Benning just ignore that?