Was there any fact to the Dallas Stars, Jason Robertson commerce hypothesis?
The Sick Podcast – The Eye Test: Sean Shapiro when requested if there was any fact to the Jason Robertson commerce hypothesis this offseason.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Jimmy Murphy: “Sean, I wish to ask you about Jason Robertson. You understand, because the draft approached and just about into the primary two weeks of free company, all we heard was this man was going to be on the transfer.
How shut had you heard he might have been to being traded, and if that’s the case, why wasn’t he traded thus far?
Shapiro: “Yeah, and the whole lot I heard about it was like, there’s an enormous distinction between procuring, we should promote and store, and we’re purchasing for one thing of equal return. I feel that’s one of many issues that sort of received misplaced within the large media sort of cycle we’re in proper now.
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And so, I don’t blame individuals proper like, how do you fill, How do you’re feeling, fill headlines. How do you fill your paper between July 1st and July twentieth, proper? Such as you’re going to undergo and say, like, Hey, Jason Robertson, could be a fantastic match (inaudible).
Sure, the Stars did take a look at and take a look at what a return may very well be on Jason Robertson. They did undergo and try this from my, from my full understanding of it.
There, it additionally, it additionally was by no means the, Jason Robertson was by no means going to maneuver for, and this to the followers on the market, he was by no means going to maneuver on your second-favorite prospect and your third-round choose, proper? Prefer it was all the time going to be, it was all the time going to be both for a roster participant to return again, the place you would sort of get a few of that time complete again and that sort of addition. Or it was gonna need to be a part of another larger transfer, proper?
Like, I don’t know the way they’d have made it work, however we all know that Dallas had kicked across the thought of going after Mitch Marner, who clearly ended up in Vegas earlier than he ever made it to free company.
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However clearly, in the event that they had been going to get Mitch Marner, that amount of cash to signal Mitch Marner would have needed to come from someplace. After which that may have been the opposite large transfer that then you definitely transfer Jason Robertson for the prospects, picks as a result of it’s good to open up that cap area.”
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