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Originally Posted by Samuelsson
I agree with your post, and I agree with shipping Gio out at some point. But there are so many factors;
1. It depends when his play starts to fall off. He's currently 34 and has a contract running until he's 38(?), at $6.75m. I can't see many people wanting to take a 37-year-old on that amount of money, considering it'll be more likely than not that his play has regressed.
2. So that makes you think that it'd have to be within the next year or 2; however, he has a NTC for this season and the 2 after. Makes it all the more difficult.
3. Suppose his play doesn't fall off a cliff; can't see the Flames wanting to ship out their Captain purely to acquire some draft picks. Doesn't look good, and we've shown to be a relatively classy organisation.
4. He's playing lights-out at the minute, and doesn't look like stopping any time soon.
In conclusion, I think we're 'stuck' with Gio until at least the last year of his contract, where it'll be easier to move him as he's got a Modified NTC, with us retaining some salary, too.
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fair enough, I would like to be classy and if there is no chance in the next few years we should stick with him, hopefully, he stays at his contracts level, however, I do not know why his contract is so long, couple years too long. What do you suppose we do with our surplus of really strong looking D prospects? Do we ship out someone else? What will the D look like in 3 years?