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Originally Posted by dissentowner
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The comparables used in that article do not apply to us.
Both Chicago and Boston won cups. Yes, Panarin was a key piece on Chicago but seguin was a secondary piece on a deep bruins team. Johnny is considered a primary piece on a team that hasn’t won squat.
Agree it will be hard to win a trade involving Gaudreau short term, which is the way I think we will go if it happens. If we take treliving at face value, he doesn’t want to make the team worse. Problem with that is you may have to take one step back to go Two steps forward. Mandate Appears to make Playoffs every year and see what happens. We don’t have the depth to compete with the elite teams, partially due to bad luck (high pick in below average 2014 draft, aborted Zucker/Kadri deals) and bad decisions (trades for goalies/lazar/hamonic) which have stripped our prospect cupboard bare.
So run with what we got and hope that core improves with some free agent Additions (outside of Johnny and mony we don’t have any Trade bait, especially after brodie and hamonic are walking for nothing). If we take treliving at his word, doesn’t appear to be big changes on horizon which is very disappointing given the track record of this team.