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Originally Posted by Bingo
First off no one is calling you a goof.
Secondly I agree with you. I just don't make the leap to stating the current GM thinks differently and isn't even pursuing change for the top six as you are hoping.
My happiness order
1. Treliving finds a deal that alters the chemistry of the top six and Flames make out like bandits in the transaction.
2. Treliving finds a deal that alters the chemistry of the top six and both teams get fair value in the transaction.
3. Treliving checks the market, doesn't like the return and decides to leave the core as is unless someone ups their offer.
4. Treliving takes the best offer he can find for one of Gaudreau or Monahan and moves them in a trade that is clearly a loss for the Flames.
Would much rather have 3 than 4.
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One could see that there would be a difficulty of setting value for Gaudreau and Monahan and basically any Flame roster player
2018-19 was a career year for the franchise and pretty much every player on the roster.. The most consistent player on the team Giordano beat his previous career year by 18 pts a 32% increase on his 56 pts in 2015-16
The Flames and the fans are expecting a trade return base on the inflated value of the 2018-19 player. The trading partner is looking at the 15-20% fall off and extrapolating the trend forward...
Most of the trade proposals I have seem on this board might have been reasonable in the Summer of 2019 but now would be in your category 1 trades...
The trouble with hanging on for another year is if the players the Flames would like to cycle out have another decline year they will not bring back a quality low-risk top level player.