Was there any reality to the Dallas Stars, Jason Robertson commerce hypothesis?
The Sick Podcast – The Eye Test: Sean Shapiro when requested if there was any reality to the Jason Robertson commerce hypothesis this offseason.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Jimmy Murphy: “Sean, I wish to ask you about Jason Robertson. You already know, 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 could have been to being traded, and in that case, why wasn’t he traded thus far?
Shapiro: “Yeah, and every little thing I heard about it was like, there’s a giant distinction between buying, we should promote and store, and we’re purchasing for one thing of equal return. I feel that’s one of many issues that form of received misplaced within the large media form 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 are 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, can be an awesome match (inaudible).
Sure, the Stars did have a look at and have a look at what a return may very well be on Jason Robertson. They did undergo and do 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 in 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 come back again, the place you might form of get a few of that time complete again and that form of addition. Or it was gonna should be a part of another greater transfer, proper?
Like, I don’t know the way they might 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 have 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 you then transfer Jason Robertson for the prospects, picks as a result of you must open up that cap area.”
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