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Originally Posted by bax
I would be way happier with a 10 million dollar 24 year old Matthew Tkachuk than I would be with a 9 million dollar 28 year old Filip Forsberg. I would think 99% of fans would be too.
Points don’t even have anything to do with it. Tkachuk boasts elite metrics in all 3 zones. He’s a rare and valuable player.
One player is just entering their prime (and is already better) while the other player is on the verge of exiting their prime.
It’s laughable that you think we can just grab a player from free agency on a whim that is anywhere near the caliber of player Tkachuk is.
The only way the Flames should consider moving him is if he let’s them know he’s accepting his QO and not willing to negotiate a long term deal.
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You've got to look at it as:
1. Tkachuk with huge and/or non-long-term contract; or
2. All the assets we'd get from a Tkachuk trade, plus a potentially comparable player on a better contract.
Listen, I'm attached to this team too, and I would love it if we could just try again with almost the same roster (plus some internal improvement). The reality is that may not be feasible. Tkachuk may try to either bend the team over a barrel or just straight up refuse to sign long-term.
All I'm saying is that there are other options for the Flames, and that it's much easier to replace, or even potentially improve upon, what Tkachuk brings.