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Originally Posted by bax
I’ve posted something similar before, but I’m going to post it again. Some Flames fans are grossly underrating what Gaudreau has brought to this team.
Between 2016 and 2019 Gaudreau placed 5th in the league amongst forwards in 5 on 5 scoring rate (2.58/60). The top 10 is:
Mcdavid
Kucherov
Marchand
Matthews
Gaudreau
Malkin
Kane
Crosby
Panarin
Guentzal
During the same time period only one player in the entire league was in on a higher percentage of his teams on ice 5 on 5 points and that was Mcdavid.
Consider that Gaudreau has primarily played with Monahan as his center and it’s amazing. Nothing wrong with Monahan, but he isn’t an elite play driving center. Look at who the other guys on that list play with.
Gaudreau is the best offensive player the Flames have had since Iginla and the straw that stirs the drink on this team.
Taylor Hall doesn’t replace that, and Nikita Gusev certainly doesn’t even come close to replacing that. If you’re trading away Gaudreau you better be sure you’re getting an amazing return.
The only reason you trade Gaudreau is if you have confirmation he won’t be signing here because if you’re trading him it’s extremely probable you aren’t making the team better.
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Why aren’t there more of you around here?
Instead I open every thread and see trade Johnny chatter.
I thought we want to get better?
Trading Johnny doesn’t achieve that, we need to continue to add good pieces around guys like Johnny, Monny, Chucky, Lindholm, Mangiapane, Dube, Andersson, Valimaki, Hanifin and Rittich.