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Old 05-04-2021, 01:18 PM   #151
DomeFoam
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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper View Post
This line of thinking is akin to not wanting a defenseman who’s prone to being on the other end of a highlight reel goal. All you see is that, so it begins to cloud the true judgment of the player.

I don’t doubt that Gaudreau bails out on the occasional play to avoid a hit, but it’s not an every shift problem and I think it mostly applies mostly to teams like the Blues or the Stars who play a very heavy game.

The past 5 or so Montréal games played out very much like a playoff series and I thought Gaudreau was one of the most dangerous players on the ice. He certainly scored some game breaking goals that very few players on this team can pull off. So you have to really ask yourself, are you ok with losing the team’s most dynamic game breaker because he bails on a few hits from time to time? If so, where do the goals come from next year?
AKA teams you must go through to go far in the playoffs. I'm okay trading Gaudreau because his game just does not translate to playoff hockey. Which is the whole point of cheering for a team, in hopes of one day wearing the crown.
I think people are really against trading him because the team will be heavily devoid of skill in the long regular seasons to come, but I think we need to accept the short term pain of losing him to restart and try again with the high end assets we'd get back before his value starts to diminish.
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