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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Really? Norris worthy defensemen are not only infinitely harder to procure that scoring wingers, the flames have far less defensemen in the system than wingers. They can stand to find/develop a winger. You simply cannot come close to replacing Gio
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Who said I believed that? I said you can argue which player the team can carry on without moving forward and the Flames record without Gio is pretty fresh evidence supporting that argument. Whereas forward scoring production would take a big time hit without Hudler, and there'll pretty good evidence supporting that as well.
I take nothing away from Gio and he will get paid. But to omit Hudler from the same deserving conversation and instead accept the idea that he should be traded is...... I'll say it again. Stupid.
Gio is the Captain, the culture setter in the locker room, for that alone he is irreplaceable. But the on ice argument can be argued.