If this is your personal opinion that Zucker is worth a 1st and a top prospect. I complete respect your opinion on this however if you look at past trades a player with Zucker production do not normally get a 1st and a top prospect. That is a fact, GM don't usually pay that price for a player like Zucker production? You saying he is worth that, You don't have any facts support that.
Is it fair for me that this is just your personal opinion and you don't have evidences to support your argument?
Sorry if I have expressed myself poorly but I said a 1st + a non top prospect (or a young 3/4 liner). I actually said the opposite to what you just said, I mentioned I do not want to gauge the value, but that I am sure that MIN won t let Zucker go for less than a 1st+ B prospect, and that the current market price for a 1st liner with term. You may feel like a TDL rental has always a positive effect on price, but I argue that this effect should be counterbalanced by the remaining term, hence the Hayes (or the Tatar trade to Vegas where the late first was complemented by a 2nd) example.
I am very well aware that these deals happen quite rarely because you need the buyer to be willing to put up with these conditions. I answered to this thread proposal stating that 10th OA + 3rd/4th liner = 1/2nd line winger + top 4 Dman, and said this was undervaluing MIN package. As mentionned by another Canucks fan (and I also am one btw), maybe Zucker does not get the 10OA but a later (16th-20th) one but then the OP would value Brodin as the diffence between 10th and max 20th OA, which is a massive undervaluation of his capabilities and of the price MIN could get for him on the market on a standalone basis.
My point to be clear : MIN does not do that