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Originally Posted by dissentowner
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I’d personally love to keep Gaudreau as I’m a huge fan. But unless the Flames are going to trade for an elite #1 two way center who can insulate Gaudreau in the playoffs, I just don’t see how holding onto him is going to work out. He’s at flight risk and elite #1 puck dominant centers don’t grow on trees, so basically we’d have to draft him.
As long as the team can find a suitable replacement, I’m fine with moving Gaudreau for the assets we will surely accumulate. But Treliving has to make the right decisions this summer because in my opinion, it’ll make our break his career here. This can’t be another 2013 or 2014 fiasco where the Flames ended up with nothing tangible for the Iggy/Bouwmeester trades. Treliving absolutely has to be right.
The Flames are barely a playoff team, so any move has to actually make this team better both in playoffs and the regular season. When Gaudreau is on, he basically carries this team to most of their winning streaks. So if the Flames lose out on this trade, there’s no guarantee that this team even makes the playoffs next season which could mean the end of Treliving’s time here as Flames’ GM.