Every once in a while I do so, but mostly I have a personal example I lean on as a reminder of how this goes: "The price for Ryan Johansen is Jordan Eberle."
That line was born around 2010 from Edmonton thirst for the #1C they desperately needed and not taking "no" for an answer, to the point that I resigned my moderator position on TR&FA so I could end every post I made on that subforum with some variant of that quotation (I was in a bit of a Cato the Censor mood). At the time, it was both defensible - per behind-the-scenes shows, that's what Columbus had demanded at the 2010 draft - and yet absurd - Eberle had just made himself the hero and leading goal scorer of Team Canada at the WJC that year, so there was no way that was going to fly, especially after his subsequent fantastic NHL debut. So Johansen remained a Blue Jacket and I kept on annoying thirsty Oil fans by repeating that line over and over.
About half a decade later, when both players were in their primes and there were Johansen trade rumors, it was equally ridiculous - the other way around. Johansen was now an established NHL center who was now meeting or exceeding Eberle's production (and would continue to do so for years beyond) and Edmonton was trapped in the basement of the NHL again; it was clear with hindsight that Edmonton would have absolutely cleaned up if they'd taken that Eberle-for-Johansen deal. Johansen was ultimately traded for a #1D in Seth Jones - adding insult to injury, as Edmonton had desperately wanted him but couldn't get a package together, and as they now had McDavid Joey could easily have been spared - oops! They rushed into making up for it with the infamous Hall-Larsson trade (which is its own convoluted storyline), and everyone pointed and laughed at this comedy of errors.
A little over half a decade after that, both players are aging out, but Eberle's done so much more gracefully and capably than Johansen has. And Johansen had a bit of a monster of a contract. So when Colorado was looking for suitors after realizing their reclamation project even at 50% was no good, suddenly Eberle-for-Johansen would have been a ripoff for the Eberle-holding team again. Joey got dumped on Philadelphia, put on LTIR, and may never play again; Eberle is still contributing for Seattle and will probably keep doing so for a year or two yet.
The moral of the story is that one should not assume what is true now will always be true, and that which looks absurd now may well have been very true then. Consider these things when reviewing the past. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.