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Originally Posted by ricardodw
So then you absolutely want him protected in the expansion draft?
Those numbers show that he is far and away better than Hanifin, Tanev and Andersson.
What kind of return would you expect from Gio?
He has not played enough playoff games to have a track record and the few that he has played in suggest he is not an elite playoff performer.
Will there be a line up at the trade deadline?
PS
Gio is tied for 114th in playoff games by a d-man since he signed his last contract. That was a big improvement over his previous 5 year deal where he not play in any playoff games Teams sign players with the clear expectations of some playoff performance... 19 hohum non-heroic playoff games over 10 years and costing 53.85 M kinda of suggest an overpayment
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It's a team sport ... he gets a share of the blame for less playoff games, but no one player should see that as a focus. Plus he was hurt and missed 11 games in 2015.
But that aside ... you said Giordano was overpaid. I argued that's not really the case.
I'm not saying you have to protect him, though I do think they should get a handle on;
a) what he will be worth at the deadline next year in a flat cap world
b) the % chance that the Flames will be sellers on that day
If the answers are a 1st, and likely then maybe they should look into protecting him and risk Tanev who's contract extends further. Or maybe Seattle would be happy to take say a 3rd for not taking him because they don't want to take him anyway.
But if the answers to either a) and b) are not much, and doubtful then you may as well expose him and see where it goes.
I want change and this could certainly be some of what we're going to see, but I don't see any point in disparaging a player down to overpaid or garbage when that just isn't the case.