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Originally Posted by LiquidX
See the thing I don't get about this part of your analysis is that you're building baertschi and granlund up to be these big mistakes.. Yes.. they have combined for 25 goals this year - on one of the weakest teams in the league.
you can't honestly say that if we kept these two that they would be producing at the same level behind gaudreau, monahan, bouwer, backlund, frolik, tkachuk, versteeg, or bennett. We wouldn't play them over any of these guys - so at best they would be getting 3rd line time on the flames. Vancouver is giving them top line minutes, and they're still not producing as top 6 forwards.
Further, I'd argue by his statline, shinkaruk is having a pretty good year in the AHL (21 games, 17 points, +5). By no means is he a lock for the big league - but honestly, on a decent team, neither are baertschi or granlund.
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No I don't see trading them as big mistakes, I just see two NHL roster players going one way who are contributing to the success of the team and the Flames having no NHL roster players coming the other way at a time when we really have a dearth of talent on the wings.
Sure those are decent numbers in the AHL but I frankly want to see NHL ready players coming our way when the Flames are trading young NHL ready players.
You talk as if the Canucks are an AHL squad, they currently have one less point and two games in hand on the Flames.
Also who know's what they would be producing for the Flames, all I know is what those players are currently producing on the Canucks and only two of those players you listed have more goals than Baertschi.