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Originally Posted by direwolf
How can you possibly have Russell in that list? The guy has arguably been our 2nd best defenceman behind Gio this year. No chance in hell that he'd be shipped out.
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Pretty simple actually. His performance exceeds any other year he's played. To keep him you have to believe that this performance is the new normal for him. I don't. I also look at acquisition cost versus the potential benefit of moving him. We are likely in a big advantage in benefit versus cost. The whole idea for rebuilding teams is to get better over the long term by dealing away short term assets. Russell is a very short term asset. Using your same logic the Flames shouldn't deal Stajan because he's been our best center. The Flames should deal away Cammalleri because he's been our best goal scorer. The Flames shouldn't trade away Stempniak because he's been our best character player. You have expiring contracts you have to evaluate where they fit in the long term plan and deal accordingly. None of the players on expiring contracts fit in the team long term, especially Russell.