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Originally Posted by stemit14
I guess the question is if the flames end up trading Andersson this season and the key piece coming back in the deal is a young centreman… what’s the best centre prospect/young NHL centre they could expect to return for 1.5 years of Andersson?
I’ll list a few that I think are in the realistic realm of quality that the flames could or should target for Andersson (in no particular order below). Keep in mind… I don’t think any of these players are projecting to be star #1 centres in the league. Teams would never trade a player trending to develop into that. The only way to get one of those is to either draft it and develop it or have a player from a list like the one below develop beyond current expectations. I think the best you can hope for is a prospect that projects to be a 2nd line centre in the NHL - which is a great return for Andersson.
Nate Danielson (Detroit)
Marco Kasper (Detroit)
Mavrik Bourque (Dallas)
Konsta Helenius (Buffalo)
Calum Ritchie (Colorado)
Brayden Yager (Winnipeg)
Brad Lambert (Winnipeg)
Jiri Kulich (Buffalo)
I’m sure there are others that I’m not thinking of. I’m not including top young center prospects/players from teams that are in the middle or start of a rebuild because I don’t think those teams would be in the market to trade young talent like that. It’s teams that are in “win now” mode… either because they are contenders for a cup (Colorado, Dallas and Winnipeg) or are desperate to start making the playoffs (Detroit and Buffalo). It might be a stretch to include players that are already contributing in the NHL such as Bourque and Kasper because playoff teams really hate to give up young roster players when they are in the middle of the season
Danielson, Helenius, Ritchie and Yager are probably my favourites from that list but I would happy to get pretty much any of them if they are still projecting to be middle six centres in the NHL - some of these players might be projected as wingers at this point.
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My reading of the situation is they are looking to add a more established guy, think along the lines of Sharangovich or Bahl/Miromanov, and the ones I see talked about are;
Dach (Montreal)
Cozens (Buffalo)
Norris (Ottawa)
If we were to go after these I think the deal likely includes Kadri if we trade with Buffalo or Ottawa as they are trying to make the playoffs or someone like Pospisil if we go after Dach (he looks more like a Backlund replacement than a 2C). I believe if we went this way (Kadri & Andersson signing off and all) we would want a top 4D coming back as well, what does the board think would need to be added to even out the below trades (looking for value not it wont happen because...).
Montreal;
Dach, Matheson &
Calgary;
Andersson, Pospisil &
Buffalo;
Cozens, Byram/Samuelsson &
Calgary;
Kadri, Andersson &
Ottawa;
Norris, Chabot &
Calgary;
Kadri, Andersson &