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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Lindholm is the best centre the team has had since Nieuwendyk.
If they trade him, they have to replace him. Anyone they replace him with is likely to be more expensive and not as good.
More importantly, Lindholm is currently the longest-tenured Flames forward after Backlund - collecting talent is part of the equation, but it doesn’t work if the guys in the room don’t live and die for each other.
That’s why it so rarely works out for the Flames, and why it’s important to draft and develop a core that’s roughly the same age and has 8-10 years to figure things out.
Because you don’t fall on a grenade for a mercenary, and this sport is full of grenades.
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Assuming Lindholm gets to 9 million a year and is signed for another 9 years it is a very small list of centers that make more money and are even potentially worse. The only ones I could see are
Benn - 2 years left
Seguin - 4 years left
Backstrom - 2 years left
The only positives about finding a center that is both worse than Lindholm and makes more money than Lindholm is that their term is much shorter. But it is a pretty thin list to find that combo.