Quoting: Black61
Have you been under a rock for the last 2 years or did you just forget Covid was a thing. Dvoraks 82 game pace over the last 2 years is 48 points he isnt a 30-35 point centre. He has more points over the last 3 years than Monahan does.
". Monahan bouncing back to half the form he was pre injury ". You must be joking.
Monahan at this point is a 1-2 million player making over 6. His body will likely force him to retire in the next year or so. Until he officially goes into LTIRetirement he is a massive negative value asset.
You are out of your mind here. Last three seasons Dvorak PPG is 0.56, Monahan 0.54 while isolated possession metrics are a joke for Dvorak, and you want Calgary adding blue chip pieces to rid themselves of one year of a contract? Since when is he retiring? Insiders and Treliving have said that he's on pace for opening night and has been skating since June.. so I mean, unless your sources are better than the GM's I guess we can disregard your point there.
Points you are struggling with:
- Habs overpaid for Dvorak in a panic, no team is giving them close to decent return on investment there
- Dvorak's possession numbers are bad.. really bad. Why would Calgary look to bring in a 30 - 40 point C with bad analytics?
- Monahan is overpaid due to injury, unfortunate, sure but is what it is, Dvorak is just overpaid and on a contract or 3 more seasons, why would the Flames strap into that when they could have 6.375M in cap next off season?
- If the Flames need cap space why would they not move Lucic who is prime for a cap floor team? Low salary, high cap hit.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/d/dvorach01.html
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/m/monahse01.html
Go look at possession metrics.. it's embarrassingly not even close.