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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Probably because you're talking about trading a top-10 winger in the league as being part of the "best solution".
That's some "we last won the Stanley Cup in 1967" management stratgey if I've ever seen it.
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Nit-pick, but Tkachuk probably isn't a top 10 winger:
ppg - gp - gpg over the last 4 years*
1.43 - 197 - 0.50 Nikita Kucherov
1.24 - 285 - 0.41 Patrick Kane
1.06 - 271 - 0.64 Alex Ovechkin
1.18 - 256 - 0.57 David Pastrnak
1.17 - 136 - 0.54 Kirill Kaprizov
1.21 - 286 - 0.36 Jonathan Huberdeau
1.27 - 265 - 0.37 Artemi Panarin
1.11 - 290 - 0.39 Johnny Gaudreau
1.21 - 268 - 0.36 Mitchell Marner
1.18 - 243 - 0.48 Mikko Rantanen
1.24 - 272 - 0.46
Brad Marchand**
0.97 - 234 - 0.36
Mark Stone**
0.98 - 288 - 0.50 Kyle Connor
0.99 - 287 - 0.40 Matthew Tkachuk
0.99 - 232 - 0.45 Gabriel Landeskog
1.03 - 253 - 0.49 Jake Guentzel
0.98 - 268 - 0.28 Blake Wheeler
0.98 - 128 - 0.45 Jason Robertson
0.94 - 185 - 0.40 Vladimir Tarasenko
0.91 - 235 - 0.44 Filip Forsberg
0.89 - 286 - 0.46 Alex DeBrincat
Obviously you can tweak rankings depending on how much you value pts vs goals vs durability vs all the other things, but I think these are pretty natural tiers.
* 4 years is a time frame that best flatters the Flames guys, especially considering their bad seasons are inherently weighted lower than their good years based on season length.
You could also say that the most recent year is slightly heavier weighted (without any manipulation) because goal scoring was up by about 5% over the other years
**I know everyone likes to write obituaries for guys at the first sign of injury trouble in their 30s, but these guys belong high on this list until they prove they've lost it.