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Originally Posted by Parallex
Unfortunate really, if there would be anyone on the Flames roster that would be an ideal mentor/role model for Gaudreau it'd be Cammy (in terms of teaching how to get by as a small guy in the NHL, how to adapt a healthy athlete diet, and how to workout like a demon).
... Damnit, Note to Self: Stop talking yourself into wanting to keep Cammy around.
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I did the same thing when I saw this thread and deleted what I was writing because it doesn't make sense to both want to keep Cammalleri on the team and want to trade him for yet another first rounder. I think he would be a great captain to bridge the gap between now and when Monahan or whomever is ready to step up and take charge of the post-rebuild team.
The problem I see is that if we keep Cammi, then we need to look at shipping out some other veteran forwards to make room for rookies.
Then after the deadline we try to deploy something like this:
Cammalleri-Backlund-Jones
Baertschi-Stajan/Monahan-Stempniak
Glencross-Knight-Gaudreau
It gets tricky because we would really want to balance out the lack of size between Cammi, Sven and Johnny hockey. I would still do it though if Cammi wanted to re-sign for a resonable price.