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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
His last successful NHL season was more than 2 calendar years ago and since then, he suffered performance altering injuries and has barely played. He will be 30 before the midpoint of next season and has a cap hit of $7.5 million for the next 2 seasons.
He is currently worth less in a trade than Lucic IMO. If he were a free agent, he would likely get a one-year "show me" deal for probably around $2 million plus performance bonuses.
The Blues are going to have to add at least a 1st rounder with him just to get a team to take him for free. If we were to trade them Tkachuk in part of the deal, it would cost them a hell of a lot more. More than they could realistically offer. Keep in mind that the team acquiring him is giving up a huge opportunity cost to not spend that money elsewhere.
I could be wrong and some sucker might come along and actually give them a young player with similar offensive upside for Tarasenko, but I pray it's not the Flames.
Tkachuk's PPG average is 0.80 and Tarasenko's in 0.83. We are not talking about a huge difference. Tkachuk is young and has no significant injury history. Both are possibly UFA after 2 years, so that is a wash. Even if Tarasenko was perfectly healthy, I don't think their value would be extraordinarily different.
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well lets not go overboard here