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Originally Posted by New Era
Put the shoe on the other foot. Say we're at the end of Gaudreau's contract and there is no indication he wants to sign here. Philadelphia comes knocking and says they have interest. What get's your attention? An Offer of a late first, Oskar Linblom, and Andrew MacDonald, or an offer of Nolan patrick/Sean Couturier? I think the answer is obvious. You have to give to get, and sometimes it hurts to get what you want. This was an example of that.
For what its worth, I would prefer that Treliving only tried to do something minor, like improve the goaltending and not do anything crazy, like selling off draft picks we desperately need to fill a pretty barren system. Lets see what this team has.
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If we were looking to be in as terrible a spot as Ottawa is then I absolutely would not be expecting to get much for Gaudreau on an expiring deal. On top of the fact that both players are pending UFAs, and therefore their values are GREATLY diminished just by that fact alone, it is also being widely reported that there’s a good chance none of the players have any interest in signing with Ottawa. Even considering trading someone like Tkachuk for players in that situation is just insane. There’s even talk that one of the three might come out this week and say they aren’t interested in resigning in Ottawa. Ottawa is in between a rock and hard place, largely of their own doing, and throwing them an elite talent like Tkachuk to help them out is frankly one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen here. If Ottawa can’t sign any of the three then they’re going to need to take on bad deals just to reach the salary floor. My current guess is Stone and Duchene walk and Dzingel gets way overpaid by the Sens just so that they can be cap compliant.
The package for Stone or Duchene is ultimately going to be very underwhelming for Senators fans. If one of the players indicates that they are interested in resigning then I see almost no way they get traded. But that sure doesn’t seem to be the case by almost any report or rumour that is out there.