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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Yeah. In “hockey trades” what are we getting back for those two? We’re definitely not going to be improving the high end talent of this team without including high value assets in picks and prospects to improve on a Johnny or a Sean.
The best hope this team has is to acquire some recently drafted players and picks. That seems like the quickest way to actually improve the team. I don’t think trading Gaudreau for Konecny improves this team next year (...if we could even get him). I don’t think trading Monahan for uh...uh...I can’t even imagine what we’d get for Monahan. I’m not sure we should be selling Monahan because his value has to be quite poor, and we’ve got the benefit of some term left on his deal - although trading Monahan for the sake of change may be right the path.
Gaudreau and Giordano are the big tickets that need to be moved in my eyes, and retaining 50% of their salaries seems like a perfect way to maximize the return.
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I figure they have to retain for anyone unless they trade Lindholm. Monahan they could possibly retain less because his contract is generally better than Gio and Gaudreau. It stings that you pay them to play next year as well, though. Ryan can easily be moved with retention. He’s a good add for a PO team, with salary the only impediment. I suppose Bennett could find a home, or Tkachuk.
Depending on the need you could move some of the journeymen. Stone or Nesterov only because veteran D always seem to have attraction at the TDL because teams are running hurt. Although the existence of the taxi squad. lessens this to some degree.