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Originally Posted by ricardodw
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.
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If the offers are based on a Gaudreau slide then you don't move him, as his career arch suggests he bounces back.
He doesn't have to bounce back to the 2018-19 season to bring in value, and he'll still have a year left to go.
Giordano is 37 he won't put up career numbers again, but both Monahan and Gaudreau are young enough not to fire sale them based on a bad season.
Over the last three seasons Gaudreau is the 18th most productive skater in time per 60. That has value. If not keep him. He's right in a pocket with Hall, Point, Eichel, Wheeler and Tavares.
Nobody is talking about their decline.