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Originally Posted by wretched34
It's about a chain reaction.
It's near sited to say, if we trade a 50 point defenseman for a 70 point forward, we are better because we're +20 in points.
Who does that 70 point forward supplant in the forward group? If he pushes Ferland down to the 2nd line, does Ferland still put up 21 goals, or do we lose 5 goals and 10 points from his total? now you're at a +10 net change.
If Dougie isn't on the back end driving play out of his zone and providing offense, does that mean other teams are putting up more points against our top pairing?
Also remember, Dougie didn't get much top PP time for the majority of the year, if Peters doesn't have his head in the sand like Gulutzan, it's quite possible Dougie puts up 10-15 more points this season.
Trading Dougie now, for anything less than a massive overpayment, and I'm not even sure that's out there, unless it's McDavid, would be silly.
I trade Gio 10 times out of 10 before I trade Dougie, and I wouldn't trade Gio.
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Even if the net change would be zero, that's fine. We have to remember that if they actually contemplating trading Hamilton (like Dreger said has been the case for a while which seems a bit odd) there is a reason for that. Somethings off with him.
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Originally Posted by Geeoff
Uhh Lindholm put up 44 points last season and has a career high of 45
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I've specifically said I'm not very interested in Lindholm. That's why I'd rather trade Dougie one for one for a equally good player (or as close in quality as possible).