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Originally Posted by jayswin
If you make the tough decision to trade Gaudreau I think you have to do it this coming off season, not the one with a year left on the contract. This organization has done a lot of good things but they blow at getting quality back for premium assets.
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That's tough for me because of how the other contracts are structured.
I think you owe it to the group to give them 2 years to go for it, then you're looking at a tear down to move Gio to a team where he has a chance to win and gaudreau with his ntc gets to choose the market that works best for him. I think if a team wants him long term, you can probably get a bit more from sending him where he wants to go. Work with him and his agent to find out where that is and move him early in the summer, before or at the draft, to that location and maybe he signs an extension right away.
There's value in that.
IMO if you're moving gaudreau you're tearing things down, so you're talking Monahan, Backlund, Giordano, Bennett and waiting out the clock on Lucic.
Plus, you can time it with the seattle expansion draft and maybe help out some teams struggling with their lineup or cap situation and earn some picks or prospects in the process, further speeding up the process.
I don't want to go back to watching mediocre hockey in a year, either.