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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Strange that you want to keep Gaudreau and trade Lindholm.
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It's largely based around who I think is replaceable and who is not.
Gaudreau has a skill set that, when I look around the league, I see very few other players having. Let him go and we're not likely to find another one like him. Tkachuk is the same.
Gio is a mainstay on the back-end and a fantastic role model for younger players, so I wouldn't deal him either unless the return was really something.
Lindholm is a very good player, but strikes me as being a lot like other very good players in the league. Granted there aren't a host of players as good as him, but certainly many more in the Lindholm mould than who are like Gaudreau or Tkachuk.
End of the day though, it's all academic: the deals available to Treliving are total unknowns to us fans, so it's impossible to really say who's tradeable and who isn't. That's just my short list of players I see as building blocks I'd like to keep in place.