I don't think you trade Tkachuk unless you plan to go scorched earth.
He's not a perfect player, his speed isn't the greatest, but his IQ and compete are extremely high. Tkachuk is a player you win with, in my honest opinion. I think we often forget how young he is since he's been in the league for so long. At 23 he's far from a finished product.
I think the problem we are seeing right now is that there's not enough compete from other players around him, particularly the forwards. They've often talked about how Chucky will pull teammates into games with his antics, but IMO it shouldn't be ON him to do that. If he's constantly the guy having to get his teammates engaged then it tells me that this team doesn't have enough players that compete hard enough and Tkachuk is probably going to end up trying to do too much which will cause his game to suffer.
Getting rid of Tkachuk doesn't solve this problem, it only makes it worse.
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