[TheScorpion]

Here's an idea.

Trade Gaudreau in a deal around Konecny, or another great offer — the best one you can get.
Trade Monahan for the best deal full of young talent you can get.

Don't limit your scope by focusing on trading for only centres. This draft is FULL of great centres. There are so many good ones available. Take Connor Zary or Hendrix Lapierre at 19 and there you go, there's your promising centre. If you're not so good next year, so be it, you get a better draft pick and another terrific prospect. Nobody's saying you have to make the playoffs next year if it makes you a better team in the long run. I'd love to see this Flames team develop a totally stacked farm system to complement an array of young impact-makers already established on forward and defense (Tkachuk, Lindholm, Dube, Bennett, Valimaki, Andersson, Hanifin).