Cranie: you don't seem to have much of a grasp here, other than a man crush or you are lobbing for  something other than the "real world."  If you blow your budget like this, of course you will have a fat and "overpaid middle" of the pack player who can't be motivated.   I don't think it sends the right message when you trade a player like McDavid, even for $8 tickets and expect someone else to pay him.  And that my friend is my point. You have to sell a great deal of $8 tickets to make up the $30-million the guy is worth. The revenue streams simply are not in Edmonton, that's the real world and again McDavid, as good as he appears, hasn't done anything yet to warrant $13 to $30-million.