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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I don’t understand the argument that’s we’d auto lose a Monahan or Gaudreau trade. Makes no sense to me at all. They have sky high trade value. They are young, skilled and on great contracts. Every team would want those kids.
People said the same of Hamilton last year. Couldn’t deal him, contact was too good, upside too high, we’d auto lose the trade. Specious reasoning.
Tkachuk ain’t going anywhere. I think Monahan and Gaudreau are going to cause a lot of discussion amongst our management, scouts and coaches. What they will determine we have no idea. First you have to determine whether you think they’ll ever be big playoff performers. Then you have to determine if that’s a problem. Loubardias made an interesting point when he talked about you still need to make the playoffs and Gaudreau gets you there even if his game goes downhill once the hooking and holding ramps up in the playoffs.
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I agree that lots of people said that about Hamilton (not me). But the outcome really depended on Lindholm and Hanifin outperforming their career numbers. So Treliving would have to pull off the same with a trade this year. No one is trading their centre with similar production for Monahan, because those are 1C numbers. So you'd have to find someone who is about to "pop". I don't see who that could be.