I think there's a big difference between wanting to actively shop a guy (Gaudreau) and being open to trading any player if the upgrade is big enough (Tkachuk).
You can say the upgrade isn't big enough, and that's fair, but nobody on this team in untouchable. We don't have a MacKinnon/Crosby/Ovechkin franchise type player, and until we do, nobody should be excluded from conversations.
There are guys across the lineup like Tkachuk, Andersson, Dube, and Bennett who I would never shop, and who I don't believe you're really going to get better value for in a trade anyway. But if you somehow do? Of course you trade them.
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