MaKi
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Are you talking about the player with 6 seasons with a pace of 30+ goals (including one of 39 goals, one of 37 goals and one of 35 goals) and another season of a pace of 28 goals.
We are talking about consecutive seasons between 22 and 28 years old.
The same player who is 4th in goals since 2011-12 in the league (he should pass Pavelski next season and be in 3rd - already ahead of him in gpg and would be 5 goals ahead of him if they had played the same number of game).
Without a hairline fracture, he would probably have broke the 40 goals this season...
So you want the third best scorer of the last 7 year to be dealt.
I don't care if he is Mormon, Evangelical, Muslim, Orthodox, Atheist or anything else I want to keep him.
BTW since 1986, there is one player with more goals: Plekanec with 226 goals in 921 games while Patches has 209 goals in 562 games. So there is a big chance that he will be ahead of Plekanec next year in 359 games less.
Trade your best scorer for the last 7 years
Personally I wouldn't mind moving him, but not just for the sake of it. All those things you listed are what makes him a valuable trade chip.
He's signed to a nice contract now, but I don't think we'll re-sign him for what he'll likely ask for, or at least I hope we don't. It would be better to try to move him now before we lose him for nothing when his contract is up. He's obviously still very valuable though, so the return would have to outweigh the benefit of keeping him until the end of his contract.