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if calgary blows it all up, which i think they will do in the near future, monahan and tkachuk will be the ones to stay. but if they do end up trading monahan they would get a first round pick for him easily. casey has virtually no value as well. welcome to capfriendly though!

No.

If you want a comparable for a Monahan trade look at when Colorado traded Duchene to Ottawa.

Hint: Monahan is younger and has better career production than Duchene did when he was traded back then.

You're not getting him AND keeping both Cozens and the 8th overall.

My thought process is this: Montour and a 2nd= a mid first roughly. Mittelstadt likely has a value similar to Nylander of last year, they both were high picks with similar post draft success at 21, and he netted Jokiharju who has a high value. I would probably change the 2nd to pick 38 this year if it made a difference.


If Monahan truly does have that much value, I would think there still would be a way to do it without those, though I might still not like it. Calgary may take Reinhart instead and picks/prospects to make it work.

flames rnt blowing it up after beating wpg, their 3 wins were some of the most complete games they played all season

I don't see why he wouldn't have that much value. He's younger than Duchene when Duchene was traded, he has better point production and goal production in his career than Duchene did at the time of the trade, and he's got 3 full seasons left on his contract where as Duchene had less than two seasons left on his. (Note: when it all shook out after Turris was flipped, the Duchene return was roughly equivalent to two 1st round pick, three 2nd round picks and a 3rd round pick)

And no, it can't be done without at least one of Cozens or the 8th overall coming back as PART of the return. If the Flames blow it up and trade their 25 year old #1C they will need something back that might replace him over the next few years. The best chance at that is those two assets, not Mittlestadt who is teetering on bust territory.