Everyone seems to assume that trading Johnny guarantees short-term futility (which I think is pretty likely whether he's here or not). Beyond examples like NYI post Tavares, teams lose their best players to injury all the time, and it doesn't necessarily preclude them from success.
We can say that this team has had some bad breaks, but we've also been pretty darn lucky on the injury front to our most important players (Bennett and Valimaki are notable for how injuries may have affected development, but neither was set to slot into the top half of the roster).
Holding Johnny into next season runs the risk of an injury prematurely ending his value.
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