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Originally Posted by Jason14h
But Duchene is 26 and the team finished last by a large margin last season.
So if the Flames had finish dead last, 21 points behind the next best team, and they traded Hamilton or Brodie (Same age range) for picks? Yeah I would be totally fine since the team isn't 1 trade away, but starting a completely new rebuild.
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Hamilton just turned 24. Plus these guys are both defence which has to be evaluated differently than forwards.
But you make a good point in that Duchene has been around and it's not like he's a 40 goal or 90 point guy. He's been in the league for 8 years, scored 30 goals once and 70 points once.
Maybe trading for picks won't appease the fan base, but keeping him is probably worse. Really he's a lot like Toylor Hall, but Colorado problem is that they didn't win McDavid in any lottery.
From my vantage point they have a lot of rot to get out of town there. But I'm not sure they can ship it all out and leave McKinnon to fend for himself. They just protected Blake Come a in the expansion draft which tells you how awful their depth is. So there is a massive amount of work required there to get a respectable team back in place.