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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The payment you're suggesting is bigger than any player has received since... I'm honestly struggling to think of a comparable. Lindros?
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99 point players with term rarely get moved - especially on sweetheart contracts with 3 years remaining. If Gaudreau get's moved it's because its a big overpay, or else the Flames have no reason to trade him.
Some of the closest recent examples of 3+ pieces for a all star under contract.
Matt Duchene
for
Girard
Kamenev
Bowers
2019 1st
2018 2nd
Milan Lucic
for
No. 13 pick in 2015
Martn Jones (Flipped for 2016 first-round pick)
Colin Miller
Sean Kuraly
Ryan O'Reilly
for
Vladimir Sobotka
Patrik Berglund
Tage Thompson
2019 1st round pick
2021 2nd round pick
All of those examples would be returns similar to the 3-4 pieces that I posted, with no pieces going back to the team acquiring the star. Also Gaudreau would be coming off a better season than any of those 3 players, would be regarded much higher than they were at the time of their trades, and there is no public trade demand - so the return would have to be higher as well.
The return proposed there would get Treliving fired. Going from pick 26 to 11, and (Maybe) upgrading from Kylington to Frost, is not worth near the downgrade from Gaudreau to Konecny.