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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Just as an example, if a team is willing to trade BT a top 6 RW for Brodie, and BT finds out during the courting period that he can sign a Dman like Hickey to replace him, core or not he probably makes that trade to address a huge weakness on the roster, while not really opening up a hole in another spot. This assumes that during the courting period, none of the top 6 wingers available as UFA's seem very interested in signing with Calgary.
In his mind I'm sure:
Hickey + top 6 RW >> Brodie and no top 6 RW
Core player or not.
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He would do that trade in the same way that if NYI offered Tavares + Barzal for Monahan Tre would say yes. Obviously if someone is willing to vastly overpay for our core players, Tre is going to say yes.
That's not the situation though. Brodie's trade value isn't the highest right now so he's not going to command much. However, he's proven he can play at a very high level and he's young enough to turn it around, so why trade him?