This is so far off its not even funny. Wake up people and see reality. A close comparable to a hypothetical Buff trade was the Brent Burns trade. Brent Burns got the Wild the following:
Setogucci (who had similar production to what Schenn has now and was the same age)
Charlie Coyle (a blue chip prospect who was the first round pick the year before)
1st round pick.
And this is the haul for a soon to be UFA Brent Burns. Buff has put on more points than Burns and has 3 years on his contract including this year. If Chevy lets Buff go for a measley return like Schenn that that will be robbery after what Minny got for a similar player who didn't even have as many years under contract as Buff does.
Buff is being seriously undervalued by several orders of magnitude
I'd love that return for Buff but i don't think it reasonable.
1. I think schenn holds more value then seto did then for 3 reasons.
1. Seto was fairly one dimensional at the time of that trade, he was ok in his own zone but it was all about the points
2. Seto was two years older then Schenn is now (24 not 22).
3. Seto's a winger, not a center and i'm also not sure if he was expected to be much mor then he already was at the time.
2. There was a second round pick in there, from minnesota, who at the time was a pereniall non playoff team, that's not valueless.
3. I know folks are hypothetically saying they'd do it for just B Schenn but we've mostly been discussing the return included L schenn or Matt read. I'd argue either are probably pretty close in value to first round pick. Reads good value and a solid middle sixer. Luke schenn on a bad contract but a every bit an NHL dman and i would still guess he has considerable upside (unless you believe bogo has no upside....)
So yah, it might not be perfect, but i'd consider it.
To me, luke schenn/matt read is probably the equivelent of teh sharks first (that was ...what...pick #25 or so?).
so your left short of recieving a blue chip prospect, but short of shipping out a 2nd round pick. Ok there's a bit of value on the table there, but nothing that i'd lose sleep over personally.
Buff = Burns
22 yearold B Schenn Center > 24 yearold D Setoguchi RW
Luke Schenn/Matt Read = SJS 1st
2nd round (not traded) < Charlie coyle
so essentially we're out the difference between a second round pick and charlie coyle. A decent chunk, but nothing i'm losing sleep over.
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