Kresco
Joined: Apr. 2018
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Flames fan here. Like many players on teams that are not yours his value gets white washed by quick stats. The reality is Nylander was mismanaged by Babcock. He was not given opportunities that he should have been. Under Keefe he started to show what he’s actually capable of. Nylander should be a 75-80 pt winger with goal scoring potential.
To be honest I would prob take everything else out of the trade and look at it one for one. Andersson is the type of defencman Toronto needs. He’s young, on a great contract and has proven he can go against some of the toughest competition in the nhl and lock them down while still contributing some offence. I think the flames consider it with our need for a legit top 6 Rw as well as need for additional scoring.
If we can re-sign Brodie it would lessen the loss of Andersson and Brodie is still only 30. Having Nylander will also give the flames options to move Lindholm to C or have a 1-2 punch of Lindholm / Nylander as our top 2 RW