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Originally Posted by dammage79
Why Monahan. Backlund makes more sense to trade. Especially if you're moving Lindholm to center. Monny is still and will be the teams best center even with all the swapping. Lindholms my favorite Flame. By a long shot but he's still not a better center than Monahan.
Backlund is great, has been a rock for the Flames for so long. But he's on the wrong side of young and his cap space can be better used. If the argument is "but defense and 200ft game", then Lindholm is the answer to that.
Its as lateral a move as you'll ever see IMO, moving Backlund and filling his spot with Lindholm. But still leaves the Flames without a top line RHS RW.
Also, DeBrusk? Why another left winger? We don't have enough of those either?
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Because Monahan really doesn’t look the same. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but if Treliving asked me which player would I rather have between Monahan and Gaudreau, I’d tell him Gaudreau. Not only that, Monahan gives us a better chance of getting a better return. If we do retain both (which is pretty likely), him and Gaudreau need to be split up. I think teams have them figured out because any film from Calgary has those two paired up. Shut down one you shut down the other (as of right now).
I know Backlund is your ideal guy to move, I just don’t see him getting traded.