I dont think you can just give up on Sven right now. Ive seen some good progression from him playing 4th line minutes and he was making some good plays with Bouma I thought recently, but they havent had that effective 3rd person with them.
If were looking at pure skill, Sven is probably 3rd highest of our young guys behind Gaudreau/Bennett. You dont give up on skill like that especially when his value is at an all-time low at the moment. If you can package him for a good young D-man then fine I can live with that, but I have dreams of a Gaudreau/Sven 1/2 LW setting up guys for years.
I do think he has been leapfrogged by some guys, but the only guys near his level of ability are Poirer/Granlund. I really like Josh Jooris, but he realistically isnt gonna stay this hot on the offensive side, and Ferland will be a solid big body winger, but in today's NHL, you need that skill which Sven can bring,w hcih I think we will see sometime in the future. Whether that is with Calgary or not remains to be seen I suppose
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