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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Trading Monahan 1 for 1 for Josh Anderson would have been a bad trade. Like Phaneuf trade bad.
If you add up Josh Anderson's last three seasons he has 67 points in 134 games. He's also not that great defensively according to most advanced stats. That's pretty much Monahan's normal point production over 82 games, let along over 2.5 seasons worth of games.
Even this year Monahan has 20 points in 28 games (11 at 5v5) and we are ready to run him out of town, Anderson has 16 in 26 (13 at 5v5) yet it's a great season.
Plus Anderson is terribly inconsistent when it comes to offensive production, he was in Columbus and is in Montreal now. After a hot start he has 2 goals, and 5 points in his last 13 games. If we traded Monahan for him we'd be running him out of town right now and saying that his 7 year $5.5M per season contract was an albatross.
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I don’t think it was a one for one and that’s partly why I believe the trade fell apart. Treliving was asking for a lot, like one of their young stud goaltenders and a defenseman + Josh Anderson. That would’ve been a fine trade.
I’m not saying Josh Anderson is without flaws, but the Flames’ right shot, right wing depth is so bad that Anderson’s presence alone would be beneficial. I’m also a big Derek Ryan fan so I have no problem playing Doc as the #3 pivot.
Lastly, regarding Josh Anderson’s production. He doesn’t play a ton of minutes; he almost straddles between 3rd line minutes and 2nd line minutes, so his production is actually pretty good. It’s mostly even strength points to boot, so that’s huge.