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Originally Posted by Wolven
For Andersson, I would be disappointed with those picks. Once Ekblad is off of the board, Andersson is the best D available this summer and next.
One might argue that Carlson is better but with him being 7 years older than Andersson it would be a tough sale and even with Andersson's drop in points this season (which I would relate to the Flames overall drop in scoring). Andersson's 11 goals beats out all of the other D in both the 2025 and 2026 UFA groups and is tied for 14th overall for D goal scoring in the season.
2 late 1sts (or an early 2nd) is not a good return for trading that asset.
It is difficult to find a balanced valuation of Andersson on this message board because you have a vocal group yelling that Andersson is worthless or at best a second line player and then you have the other group who love Andersson and think he is so good that we are crazy to think about trading him.
Even though I am likely to be disappointed, I do think that the combination of Andersson's real value to hockey professionals and the scarcity of top line D for teams that do not have time to grow their own will bring back a significant asset and not a hodgepodge of spare parts. |
Are people saying he's worthless or are people just being realistic? Find a few examples of a player of his calibre, age, contract status, etc. bringing back anything more than what has been suggested?