What's the asking price for Erik Karlsson, Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell? The answer is, pretty high. There are now many top-6 forwards available. Rust and Rakell are both coming off very strong seasons. Both of them more than lived up to expectations.
And Pittsburgh is looking at this market efficiency and saying, 'Nobody can get their hands on these top-6 guys, we're not going to give them away even if they're older and don't necessarily fit our age scheme moving forward. We need to get real significant value in return.'