Oh man.
Grade for Pengwin Trade Proposal: D-
I'd fail myself if not for the trade being PIT-SJ.
I missed BAD-LY.
No Granlund Buyout.
Just a single LATE (likely) 1st rounder going back to SJ.
I will say this - my trade "fairness" was fine.
Capfriendly sent out a tweet that suggested that holding $5m of cap hit = 1st round pick.
https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/stat...25633992581120
I had proposed SJ hold 50%, which would be $5.75m x 4 years = $23m = 4.5 "first round picks" - which would've been a windfall... just for holding cap.
Then... on top of that - sending out a player such as Karlsson AT a $5.75m cap hit would've had enormous value.
And... there should've been value on SJ clogging roster spots with EATING Granlund for 2years and EATING Hoffman.
SJ also, now, only has ONE retain slot left. So they could move out an expiring deal at deadline (Hoffman,1yr or Duclair,1yr at say 50%)... but that seemed unwise to retain just $1.5m on Karlsson and plug a spot.
It's clear Dubas wasn't offering a lot.
And I hope (!?!) that SJ ownership put the clamps to Grier to "trade him - we want to go forward without him".
(The return is just absolutely underwhelming for actual assets moving out.)
But towards things being fair... I feel OK that I understand retained-cap-hit for return market value.