“huge upside emerging”.
cmon bern, Lafs production for a #1OA pick has been very ”meh” thus far. Not doubting there is some good upside there for him still, but you’re talking (and valuing him) like he’s been setting the world on fire. He hasn’t. He’s produced less than what most ppl would have expected by now even.
regardless, there is no way anyone is trading possibly upwards or over possibly 5 first rd picks value for him.
a likely top 5 pick next year, a recent 1st rder in Justin Barron, the first pick in the 2nd rd this year, a 4th... and potentially 3 more 1st rounders? Laf would have to be producing like a top 20 player in the NHL and teams still wouldn’t pay that much for him.
I worry/wonder about your grip on reality. Because this stuff above is nowhere close to it.
bold: where you are wrong is Rangers have right to weight heavily on legit projected upside. You reject that. Rangers do not have to/should not accept your posture.
We have identified why he as not a phenom on year 1, let alone day 1.
Every other aspect, he has checked out, his skating
HAS BEEN a weak link. That has been addressed and continues to improve to such degree he should be crushing it on all cylinders by early 2023. In the meantime, he continues to emerge. Your failure to acknowledge this, while you have a right to that opinion, does not make your opinion correct.
underline. He was worth more than the 1OA paid for him. Then his value went down if for no other reason than fact 2 yrs of elc are gone. But STILL elc.
Five firsts is nebulous in that they are usually not all available currently in the same year, so there is delayed gratification in when received, and how much of a big deal that is or is not is betw two trading partners.
There are also other currently available assets that may be substituted in lieu of future firsts. Howev, unless there is sufficient overpayment, and in the currency NY can use [draft picks which = mn cap hit], NY has no reason to deal LaF.
On the one hand the price should come down b'c obv Rangers need to move people to recover salary, which weakens their bargaining position. On the other hand, with an elc, LaF is part of the solution, not part of the problem.
So what I said before holds. Just because there is the hope that drury will not be arrogant and throw away Krav and we are thrilled w/how good Othmann looks, that is no reason to jettison LaF for chump change which is apparently your valuation.
Italics. It is wholly proper to note that the only possible impasse breaker here is to have a down payment, and then something which kicks in ONLY IF LaF earns his hype next 3 yrs.
Final sentence.
Your denigration is WAY out of line.
Some of my academic work, which has Nobel Prize potential, is being studied for academic validation.
Your dig as to my "grip on reality" followed by your unqualified assessment, is rebuked.
Will you try to change things, with the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas?
- Robert Lamm,
Chicago
