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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
There's a preponderance of evidence that Johnny won't be re-signing here. It's not 100%, but it's high, high probability. The guy wants to be out east, I know we all like Calgary because we were born here or moved from some place like Sask or Mantioba but it's just different for someone not from around here. His family, his buddies, and his lifestyle all line up better with places like Boston Philly and NY. We've honestly been incredibly lucky that he even came to play here given the backdoor route these NCAA guys can take after playing four years.
The Flames have a window set up to try and achieve what they can with this core, and that window is clearly the 2.5 years left with Gaudreau under contract as the team's most talented player. If management feels like this is not the group to win the Cup with then changes have to be made, and as the player that will fetch the most in return while also being the one player on the team that I would bet my life on not re-signing here you have to explore what you can get. A trade done right would allow the Flames to reload with an experienced-ish core of Monahan, Lindholm, Hanifin, and Tkachuk complimented with high-end and most importantly cost controlled young assets.
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The fans need to stop worrying about trading Gaudreau today because they are scared he will walk as a free agent. Everything in this thread using that as a reason is based on speculation.
It is Treliving's job to work with Gaudreau on this- I can't imagine this being a "wait and see" type situation like Tavares, if Gaudreau doesn't want to re-sign here I'm sure he will make that clear before his current deal expires.
As I said in the other thread Gaudreau has 204 points in his last 191 games. That's better than every single player in the league over that span save for 11 players. It's better than Pastrnak, Panarin, Wheeler, Tavares, Malkin, Huberdeau, Kessel, Rantanen, Kuznetsov, Eichel, Marner, Seguin, Kopitar. The list goes on. Trade him on the last year of his deal when you have confirmed he won't be re-signing.
Until then, business as usual. Continue to bring in good players and try to win. It's still too early to be talking about trading Gaudreau.