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Originally Posted by wingmaker
Because for a team starved for offence, trading your top point getter on defence just doesn't make sense. 60 -70 point winger for a 40 - 50 point defence man with room to push above 50 points is not a substantive upgrade. They need to add offence to the offensive players that are working on the team, not subtract offensive players to get marginally better offensive players. Also, having offence from the blue line diversifies your offence. If all of your offence is tied up in two top lines, you become very easy to shut down. If you add an offensive player to the top six while keeping some punch from the blue line in Gio and Dougie, now you are talking about upgrading the team. But trading one for the other is just not enough.
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Gio has scored 56pts before, Brodie with 45 in 75 games, and Andersson had 39pts in 56 games in the AHL last year. We have players that can produce from the back end (albeit not at Hamilton’s level).
Which forward on the team outside of Monahan, Gaudreau, and Tkachuk (who hasn’t cracked 50pts yet) will be able to score 60-70 on the Flames?