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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Why would he avoid that? We're talking about a 38 year old. If that means that the Flames keep all of Hanifin, Valimaki, Kylington, Andersson, other signings or surprises (Brodie/Hamonic/UFA), Treliving will probably be begging for them to take Gio.
I love Gio, but 38 year olds don't have the best track record in the NHL. Iginla was still a 30 goal scorer at 37 but done by 39.
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Because he's Gio, and he could possibly make some trades that improve the team by getting draft protected assets. I kinda doubt that anyone will be "begging" Seattle to take Gio. If they leave him unprotected it will be reluctantly. It wouldn't be unprecedented. The Bruins protected Chara who was older.
You qualified all of this by saying that it's the situation if all those players are kept. On that I agree. But stuff happens and trades are made ahead of the draft purely for that purpose.