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Originally Posted by Icon
I'd be on board for a deal focused around Brodie for Duchene. I like our defense depth/cupboards so I think it would be a good long-term plan.
That said, would have to play one of Duchene, Monahan, Bennett on 1st line RW to even bother to make the deal. Don't need Duchene if you're burying him down the lineup.
All that said, ideally, we keep Brodie and Bennett has a breakout year and convinces everyone he's way better than Duchene anyway.
Wow that was a scatterbrained post... Is it October yet?
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Haven't been too impressed with Brodie for over a year now, aside from flashes. Hopefully he can regain his 15/16 form.
But I think Hamilton is progressing past Brodie as a defenseman, so if we were to trade from a position of strength on D for a big piece up front, Brodie might make sense. But I don't know if Duchene is the player I'd be looking to flip for. He looks like a guy that has let the losing culture seep in. Just like the (1st/2nd/3rd?) rebuild players out of Edmonton. They're getting traded off a bad team for a reason.
Ideally you'd trade Giordano before any of the younger guys but with that contract it will be hard to move and depending on his level of play may not fetch as much.
Like you I hope the answers up front can come internally, but until then I'm not counting my eggs. With the cap space they have, I don't know why fetching Jagr for a low risk one year deal isn't the way to go.. Could be a pretty good stopgap solution and put less pressure on the young guys to pick up all the slack.