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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Agreed but there is a difference in the assets between those guys and the value that can be extracted and a guy like Johnny
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Yup, you let depth players walk when you're contending because you need them to actually win in the short term.
You trade valuable core players when they no longer fit what you perceive to be your top end window for contention but are still valuable and productive players.
If they are beyond their years in value and productivity, you can retain them if their pay isn't excessive.
Gaudreau after a couple of years of 100 points at the age of 29 isn't going to be that.
What it means to trade valuable core players while they still have value is to be ruthless about your contention window. I think it's genius in what Dubas is doing that people don't see.
Moving Gaudreau without replacing him with another top 10 player isn't going to cut it, mediocre hockey doesn't win.
To me, that's what the lack of assets gets you, consistently floating around or just below the average, able to tread water but never get anywhere. Able to spend money to stop the bleeding but never enough assets to recover or make up any ground.
This team doesn't work to have tkachuk monahan and gaudreau making 8,9,10 million. That's how you become the blackhawks.