Every GM in the NHL would view Vesey as a better player than Rempe right now. Every. Single. One.
Want to revisit in a few years? Fair enough. Impact to a lineup TODAY and it's not close.
As to the "ludicrously unrealistic" let's take your proposal above:
"
1. Rs - Ds
KAM, Othmann, Lindgren, Vesey, Robertson
for
Zegras, Vatrano, Vaakanainen, Dumoulin, Helleson"
In the salary cap era (2005 - present) please point out ANY 10 player swaps between two teams that have occurred.
Next, please point out where a team that was actually in the top 5-6 to actually win a Stanley cup did such a thing.
You can't. Because it's UNREALISTIC.
Guess again
Your arbitrary benchmark of 10 in a given single deal attempts to define that size of (quantity) of assets in trade automatically = unrealistic
1. realistic is dominated by quality of assets on both sides, taking into account other factors [player needs to be moved, cap considerations, etc.].
2. while rare we DO see big deals once in a while
in ever tighter cap situation, 2 teams bring in a third partner
the total assets can approach 10 or even more, but that is unnecessary since, as explained above, your methodology is erroneos
3. I did not break this down further because same is unnecessary.
But to further repudiate your erroneous assignment of 10, deals can often be subdivided into smaller deals
to illustrate in the immediate example above, doing Helleson and Robertson as a separate trade reduces it to 8 total assets in a larger deal, which prob can be subdivided further another once or twice -- howev, such hair splitting is unnecessary
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IF YOU WANT TO CHALLENGE MY PROP, FINE
BUT DO IT ON THE MERITS
NOT YOUR ARBITRARY BS
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Also
I do not have time to waste with you, but just to further prove what I said above
the site
Biggest trades in hockey history - NHL Trade Tracker
lists a couple that are recent that have high quantity of assets swapped, some with conditions as well
e.g.
Guentzel deal, 2 players to CAR, 6 assets to PIT - 9 total
also the Erik Karlson deal [SJ-PIT] was 7 assets, but notes MON was third team so something further there
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Finally the ultimate rejection of your arbitrary postulate is that in sports, while rarest of rare, in NFL one trade -- forget the name -- 1 guy traded for like 10.
And most exceptional, 2 franchise swapped entire teams, all assets for each other.
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And I have already listed why you choose to ignore that instead
Rempe >> Vesey right now
he has upside JV does not