What would you trade for McDavid

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

Life sucks more if you don't have the guts to do something about it as well. Or are you calling Bill Russell and a$$hole

 

The owners would fvck over any player for a buck. This kid has the chance to make more money going somewhere else and help his career because he is that good and has the leverage to do so and people are literally begging him to do it. I have not heard any argument against this other then some bullsh!t of honoring the draft process which other players have played before so why would it be different now?

 

What's the point of having a draft then, if certain players decide they're too good or special to play for the team that drafted them?  The idea is that the best players go to the worst teams so that those teams have a chance to improve.  Of course, sometimes a team makes a dopey trade and winds up giving up a high pick to another team...we've seen that before on both sides with the Devils...the Rockies gave up a first-rounder for Bob Lorimer and Dave Cameron and that first-rounder became Pat Lafontaine, and of course, Toronto traded their first-rounder for Tom Kurvers, and that pick eventually became Scott Niedermayer. 

 

ND5, the Rockies made the playoffs in their second year (77-78), and in the franchise's fourth, but it was kind of a joke...for one, they got in with a 19-40-21 record.  And though they played the Flyers kind of tough (losing 3-2 in OT and then 3-1), they were clearly not a good team. 

 

As for top guys bailing on the teams that drafted them...yeah, it's been done before.  Some have gone on to enjoy great success.  But once you force your way out, it's a bit of a black mark on your career...it's just not looked upon terribly fondly by most...it comes off as entitled and bratty, and though it may not necessarily define one's career afterwards, it's not really forgotten either.  Lindros, Elway, Eli Manning...I've heard derogatory things said about all of them for doing that, and in Lindros' case, it was clear that the team that went all-out to get him ultimately lost in that deal, which made his own fanbase turn on him a bit.  I think at the end of the day, you gain more respect as a young player when you accept a challenge and live with the cards you've been dealt.   

[NewarkDevil5]

What's the point of having a draft then, if certain players decide they're too good or special to play for the team that drafted them?  The idea is that the best players go to the worst teams so that those teams have a chance to improve.  Of course, sometimes a team makes a dopey trade and winds up giving up a high pick to another team...we've seen that before on both sides with the Devils...the Rockies gave up a first-rounder for Bob Lorimer and Dave Cameron and that first-rounder became Pat Lafontaine, and of course, Toronto traded their first-rounder for Tom Kurvers, and that pick eventually became Scott Niedermayer. 

 

ND5, the Rockies made the playoffs in their second year (77-78), and in the franchise's fourth, but it was kind of a joke...for one, they got in with a 19-40-21 record.  And though they played the Flyers kind of tough (losing 3-2 in OT and then 3-1), they were clearly not a good team. 

 

As for top guys bailing on the teams that drafted them...yeah, it's been done before.  Some have gone on to enjoy great success.  But once you force your way out, it's a bit of a black mark on your career...it's just not looked upon terribly fondly by most...it comes off as entitled and bratty, and though it may not necessarily define one's career afterwards, it's not really forgotten either.  Lindros, Elway, Eli Manning...I've heard derogatory things said about all of them for doing that, and in Lindros' case, it was clear that the team that went all-out to get him ultimately lost in that deal, which made his own fanbase turn on him a bit.  I think at the end of the day, you gain more respect as a young player when you accept a challenge and live with the cards you've been dealt.   

 

Sorry, I actually didn't realize that about the Rockies, but then again that was back in the same era where St Louis made the Stanley Cup Finals three years in a row as an expansion team because by golly someone had to come out of the west.