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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
His poor performance the prior 2.5 seasons, the red flags, and awful playoff performance and you are trading him at a all time low value.
Keeping him everyone won in the end even if we didn't get the job done. We finished 1st in our division won a round, if our goalie didn't have a complete meltdown we probably make it to round 3 and who knows. Johnny had a career year that hasn't been seen in a long time, cashed in.
We trade him for Morgan Frost and a 1st and we are probably picking in the lottery.
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I think you are really under estimating what Gaudreau's trade value was prior to last season. It maybe wasn't that of a 115 point player, but that is moot anyway since he walked for nothing. Something is always more than nothing. You might remember just just a few months ago that Tkachuk outright said he was leaving as a free agent and had a list of like 3 or 4 teams, and Treliving still made a hockey trade out of it. Certainly Gaudreau's value with a full year on his contract was worth more than Frost and a 1st, especially if it was to a market where he would show interest in signing in.
You make it sound like Gaudreau fell off a cliff, but he was still one of the more productive players in the league. In the three seasons before last season, he had 206 points in 208 games. Only 14 players had more points than him over that period and it puts him right up there with Ovechkin, Stamkos, Zibanejad, Tavares, Mark Stone and Bergeron at that time. Could you imagine any of those players having the trade value of Frost and a 1st?
If only every player could suck that bad during their "down" years.