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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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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I agree. I truly believe we can trade Johnny and get a good return. I also think we can utilize the cap space to fill some holes and still be a good team. If treliving finds another lindholm who hasn’t broke out yet we could be better and eliminate losing Johnny for nothing and hopefully draft well and strengthen the prospect pool all at once
Johnny can resign this summer. If treliving allowed the team acquiring him to negotiate a new deal we could get a good deal