Lafleurs Guy
Guuuuuuuy!
- Jul 20, 2007
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At 1st you’ve got great odds of getting a superstar. At five, you got great odds of getting a really good player and an outside shot at a superstar.Kessel was borderline elite. Let's just say he was certainly better than Kyrou.
About half of those players are (give or take) as good or better as Kyrou though and that's my point. I'd say If you have around 50% chances to get someone as good as Kyrou and around 10-15% chances to get an elite player then i'll try my luck.
I think people who think (there's many on this board) that we are just one Kyrou away from winning are as delusional as Dorion was when he tried to win last summer. We need prime elite skills and Kyrou is not elite skills. Unless you can get clear as day elite skills (mid 20ies) for a package made of dunno Mailloux and the 5th then i'm personally not doing it.
That 5th is our best trade asset. I can't begin to understand why anyone would trade our best asset for Kyrou. It's like when Atkins traded Moreno for Vasrho. He had to get a top of the line hitter and his best asset was Moreno. He traded his best asset for a guy who while good was not good enough. That 5th is not moving unless the return is a solid clear as day ppg+ player in his mid 20ies.
Kessel was a borderline superstar. Top ten scorer in the 2010s. If he didn’t play in that low scoring era he’d probably go to the HOF.
I wouldn’t give up the 5th for Kyrou.