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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The team needs change.
Gio likely gone and likely finding himself with one last chance to show he is a playoff contributor, either with the Kraken or with some team that is already a playoff team and adds him as a playoff rental.
Gaudreau and Tkachuk are in their contract years and Gaudreau will be a playoff rental, either for the Flames or for some other team
Monahan is coming back from surgery and has minimal goodwill left from his play prior to 2019-20
A top line of Mangiapane Backlund and Lindholm is not that bad.
Somehow the pieces as they leave have to be turned into guys that play hard and fast and GAF
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Monahan you can't deal. Giordano is gone.
The team and most media are shooting down the Tkachuk stuff, so maybe that goes quiet. Have to think they know what he's thinking contract wise when this one is up or they'll deal him.
The really interesting one now is Gaudreau.
Without Giordano the team isn't as good. They have cap space, but maybe they see it as a step back year and moving Gaudreau prior to his NTC makes more sense.
Either way they have to get the expansion draft out of the way, and then things get interesting this weekend.