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Originally Posted by Jacks
I'm glad you guys aren't the GM of this team, we'd be icing a team of all rookies.
Why would you want to trade Russell? What are you hoping to get that is better than he is now?
You might get a second rounder but you'd be lucky to draft a player as good as him. He's a young Dman who is playing well above his pay grade, that's the kind of player we should be building around, not dumping.
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I don't think people would dump every single guy on their dump list as that would make it impossible to work under the cap rules.
As for Russell I agree that his value is probably pretty low so might as well keep him but at the same time he has been pretty mediocre at best this year and worse than that over his career.
He looks like a top 4 guy on this awful defense but on a real team he is a bottom pairing guy at best. Like he has been for his whole career he is solid at moving the puck and can provide secondary scoring but is soft and weak defensively.
I think he is a better option than the likely 4th round pick he gets but if he were moved it is not a big loss for the Flames because he doesn't add a ton moving forward and they should be able to replace him by the time they are contending fairly easily.
He is a good guy for the rebuild as he fits a role when you aren't concerned with wins and losses.