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Originally Posted by 868904
I don't understand this Monahan equal or better than Zibanajed argument.
MZ has averaged a little over a point per game over the past 3 season while Monahan has averaged just under 0.80 points per game. Monahan is also trending down and is injury prone.
I mean put yourself in a non-Flames fan perspective, would you want your team to acquire a guy who has had two years of declining production, appears to be injury prone, is recovering from an injury now, is a poor skater, and makes $6.35 million for two more seasons? Oh and, maybe his great past production is tied to playing with an elite playmaker who seems to be doing just fine without him?
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I'm not here proclaiming Monahan is our savior and way better than MZ but he's not much of a downgrade is isn't going to be paid north of 9M+ after 1 year here.
We also don't have to give up a much of our BEST assets in order to get Monahan as he's already here. My whole argument is based on the fact that I'm not willing to give up 1st round picks in either of the next 2 drafts + 1-2 of our top prospects (lets say Corronato & Zary) for 1 year of a cost controlled MZ and then give MZ a nice big hefty raise to say 9.5M x 6 for a 29 year old who's
NOT MUCH BETTER than Sean
IF AT ALL who we have for free right now.
That's my point
TLDR:
- Keep Assets if we cant get Eichel
- Dont trade assets to be 3rd wheel in a trade and end up with MZ
- SM vs MZ is totally debatable and likely no real answer other than that fact that SM is free to the flames right now which makes it a better deal for the franchise.