Trades have to work for both teams not just yours. Calgary wants 1st round picks and good roster players or A prospects who can fill needs soon, not just w/e you want to get rid of. If Lindholm is traded then the two biggest needs will be:

1. a 1st line center or someone with good potential to eventually become at least a decent 2nd line center.
2. Right shot forwards with the potential to become good top 6 players.

IOW, the ideal return would include a 2024 1st and a pretty good right shot center or center prospect. Plus more how much more depending on just how high the pick is and how good the player/prospect is.

1st round picks (the earlier the better and the Rangers is going to be a late one) allow the Flames to pick players they think could fill those spots in a few years.

If Lindholm extends to remain in Calgary then the single biggest need will be a top 6 goal scoring forward preferably another right shot. Ideally a true sniper capable of being a gamebreaker even if he isn't one yet.

You aren’t going to get a prospect of that caliber AND a 1st round pick for a pending UFA.
Teams with high first rounders are not going to spend them on a pending UFA.
CGY would be over the moon to get this type of package offered. Miller alone is worth more than pending UFA Hanifin.
Gilbert isn’t anything special and could probably be had for a mid round pick at best (3rd or 4th).
Pending UFA lindholm isn’t worth kakko, jones plus a 1st.

Don't be ridiculous. Lindholm almost certainly won't be a rental. He'll be extending to stay somewhere. Whether that's in Calgary or somewhere else is what's yet to be determined.

The number 1 player on all the trade boards, a 1st line right shot two way center (one of the very best two way centers) won't be acquired cheap.

Just about everybody wants either or both players. Yet the vast majority post ridiculously low offers for them. Newsflash bidding wars go to the highest bidder not the lowest!

Look at the playoff teams, and then see what has the cap to dish out an 8m+ contract to a 29 year old… even with the cap going up 3-4m, there aren’t many (NYR being one of them) that can resign him. It is very rare when a pending UFA signs with the team acquiring him for a cup run, because most can’t afford it.

Also, who was the last player who got as you are defining a top 50 prospect, a 1st and more as a pending ufa? It just simply doesn’t happen. The last time a 1st plus top 50 prospect was traded was the Eichel deal. You are absolutely delusional to expect that type of return. If this was last summer or the summer prior when he had at minimum a full year left I would’ve said maybe.. but as a pending ufa it just won’t happen.

The Rangers, realistically, can afford one or the other but not both (Lindholm and Hanifin). I also dont see Lindholm getting 8m+, I see him as a 7.5m guy. For as good an all around player that he is, hes only had over 70 points twice in his 10 year career. Not exactly eye opening. Bergeron at his peak was making 6.875m and he is no Bergeron.

All teams pass here except for CGY, although we would thankfully never offer KAM Kakko & 1st.



Expecting ready made replacements is dreamland, plus 1sts & top kids!.?
Him signing is no gimme