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Originally Posted by Savvy27
Could you elaborate on this? I genuinely can't tell if you are wildly overreacting to rumours or if you just find it interesting for conversation.
Tarasenko is not a player that I would even consider trading Tkachuk for. I would much rather see if the Flames have a good year and a playoff run and get a better sense of what it would take to re-sign our awesome young player than to panic now and trade him because salary negotiations might be tough.
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Sure. The Flames were a bottom 3rd of the league team with arguably their best player being a UFA after next year. Even if he stays odds are it’s going to be a contract with loads of risk or a much higher cap hit. If the Flames decided to move on from Johnny they might be ok because of guys like Tkachuk.
Now rumours that I guess may not be true surface our most valuable asset is wanting out. You don’t think this hurts this franchise that already is struggling to turn from a bubble playoff team to a true contender.
Add to this a very weak prospect pool and aging players like gio backlund markstrom and tanev and lucic contract with 2 years left. This team couldn’t afford getting a huge blow that a guy like Tkachuk wants out. Maybe these rumours aren’t true but I believe they need to rebuild before this so adding this to the mix makes it even more necessary they need to rebuild. I don’t believe if he demands a trade we will get fair value and I think if he does get traded Johnny may not stay either
I also think monahan potentially getting traded might factor in to Johnny staying.
How is an already bad team getting better if we trade all 3 and probably get lessor players and picks back making this team better?
Time to rebuild