hell naaa, he sucked when he was here

Jackets say no. We need strong player leadership with this shift in management.

Makes more sense to keep him than move him for Meh.
Plus nobody wants to talk about him being fantastic last year. Solid defensively and put up a career high in points.

CBJ say no, no reason to move Gudbranson until 1) we have a better option on the 3rd pair (Severson, Jiricek, and Boqvist aren't a fit), 2) we have more leadership options, and 3) we're approaching the cap and are fielding a competitive team.

Maybe in 2025-26, but almost certainly not before then.

Gudbranson's actually been pretty good for us, so we have no reason to try to give him away - if we're obliged to retain on him in a trade, that kind of takes away any point of making the deal because we don't save any cap by doing so (since we'd have to pay the saved money for his inevitable replacement).