Ain’t nobody selling the farm in this situation. There’s no leverage for that. Either Toronto wants to keep him or they accept a trade to just move on like the Sharks did to move Karlsson.
The Kings haven’t gotten out of the first round in almost a decade now. We could say this trade would be losers for losers
There’s always someone that thinks they can fix players that produce in the regular season. Sometimes it works but it’s a huge gamble unless you get them to retain a decent amount.
I’d expect Matthews to be worth more in a vacuum but full clauses and high cap hits tend to yield disappointing returns. If they get a 1st and a good player or pick, that’s what they should expect if they want to move on. Otherwise, you keep trying with him and however you decide to use Marner and Tavares’ cap space.
People on these boards have no clue about value, well most of them.
way overpaying for Matthews, especially with him having two years left. Take Jiricek and one of the 1st off
Hard to say what an overpay is when there’s not really a modern example of a player like Matthews being traded. Could use the Eichel deal if you’d like, but there were other circumstances around Eichel that dropped his value and he did have the resume Matthews had when traded. It’s an unrealistic trade anyways.
