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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
Mangiapane had the second most 5v5 goals on the Flames this year with 15 (Lindholm 1st with 17 & Tkachuk 2nd with 12) and the 3rd most 5v5 Primary Assists with 11 (Gaudreau and Backlund both had 13).
26 of his 29 5v5 points were Primary Points, which led the team.
He also led the team in total points/60 5v5 at 2.02/60.
His ixGF/60 (0.8), iSCF/60 (9.4) and iHDCF/60 (4.25) were all also 1st or 2nd on the team.
Not to mention he had the best possession and scoring chance rates by far across the board among all Flames forwards despite having the 3rd lowest Offensive Zone Start % (45.27%).
In no way whatsoever do we have a "surplus" of Andrew Mangiapane's.
Trading Mangiapane would flat out be dumb. Trading him for Josh Anderson would be a travesty.
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So what’s your pecking order? For the sake of argument let’s lump the sub 6’ 200 lbs forwards in the system. Gaudreau, Mangiapane, Dube, Philips, Pettersson, Pelletier, Philp (missing anyone?)...seems like quite a few, no? Not only that looking at a few of the players who should be on the table around 19 at the upcoming draft, a lot look to have the same attributes. What do you do? Hold on to all of them? Move who?
Mangiapane for Anderson might just be two names included in a larger deal but point being the Flames do have a surplus of small skilled competitive wingers. There is risk with Anderson and his shoulder (you have to know what you’re getting) but there is a decent amount of smoke here and has been for a while.
No doubt Mangiapane is valuable as has been discussed quite a bit but it wouldn’t surprise me, whether it is Mang or otherwise, where a player is moved and it going to catch people off guard.