Rackell was injured last year and never really got his legs back under him until the second half of the year, but during that second half he put up a ppg that was within statistical norms. He had like 28 or 29 goals his first full year as a penguin, and once upon a time, before the ducks was completely void of talent, he had two or three 30 plus goal years.
30 goals are not unheard of from him. Even with a few bad years on bad ducks teams when he was younger I'd bet he still averages over 20 goals and over 50 points in his career, and I'd guess there are teams who will have top line wingers who don't put up the numbers rackell will this year.
The pens can do better than darch, who a lot of people called (at best) a reach at 3rd overall and at worst an out right wasted pick in that spot if the decide to move rackell this year. Since he was drafted 3rd overall he's gotta be labeled a bust at this point, one who can't stay healthy. Plus he makes over 3 mil a year. Jesus, Pono would probably put up similar, if not better stats, if given 2nd line minutes on Montreal this season.
Montreal should be ecstatic if someone offered a third for darch just to open that cap space down the line.
What value X has, which I'm sorry isn't a 20-30 goals scorer, a good prospect, and a 3rd is actually brought down by adding darch to the deal.
You add X to darch to dump darch.
