[FranksandBean]

It seems everyone is in agreement that this was not a great way to deal with the situation. I agree that this is the agents job and he would not have done this if his client was happy or didn’t talk to him about the situation. There is a chance, and I believe this is likely, that Frolik didn’t know this was how his agent was going to deal with the situation.

I believe he is a very useful middle 6 winger on most teams, apart from his contract he is a top 9 on a contender and top 6 on a bubble team with or without his contract. With that said I would only trade him if it made our team better and I do not believe we should be adding picks to sweeten a deal. I say this because I believe picks are best used to grab prospects to help increase a teams window and those prospects are best used to improve the team (by sweetening a deal) at the deadline (just my management style).

So with my 2 cents added and the fact that we are split on whether to trade him or keep him, so I propose a question. What are your trade targets to give him what he wants or what do you think his value is?

I believe our greatest need would be to add secondary scoring and depth, so either we need to find a player who can get our players going (Neal) or just add the scoring himself when he comes in. I like Bennett but he would be a beast on a 3rd line that is fast and hard to play against, I like Jankowski and think he fits the same bill but he would be a fantastic 4th liner on a cup team, Backlund on the 3rd line would definable make us a contender. My two Ideal candidates would be Simmonds or Schenn but am open to other 2nd/3rd Line C/RW’s who help the team. I just don’t know what to add to get there as I am not sure Frolik is best suited for either team, but is better for Philadelphia than StLouis.

Guadreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuck-Schenn-Neal
Bennett-Backlund-Czarnik*
AHL-Ryan*-Hathaway

Or

Guadreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuck-Backlund-Simmonds
Bennett-Jankowski-Neal
AHL-Ryan-Hathaway

Thoughts?