Stastny actually never got to play with the productive Landeskog at all. Only this last season and Landy had a brutal year. His main partner has been David Jones for years with a bit of Hejduk and Jamie McGinn. He seemed to work well with Stewart but has never had really talented linemates. If you look at his best seasons he always outscored his wingers, but was also always the undisputed top line guy, rather than 1b like the last couple of years. It's tough to avoid slumps where you are playing with sub 40 point wingers and a D that can't move the puck.
Rather than call him a 3rd liner, he has rather been one of three first line centers, on a club that has no wingers. In 10-11 his top winger Jones had 45 points. In 11-12 it was Jones again, but only 37 points. In 12-13 it was Jones, 22pt pace, or McGinn 38pt pace, or Landy 28pt pace. They split the pp time three ways.
His lessening production, albeit with worse linemates than Grabovski has had, is a concern, but that is more a reason to not offer too much, rather than not even inquire. Fans don't determine the trade value, and the reality is that most of the time the home town thinks a lot more of a player than the marketplace will ever offer. Nobody is giving up a 1st round pic for Stastny when they can sign a more productive Ribeiro and give up nothing, unless it is a playoff rental, but maybe not even then if he doesn't ramp up his game. Stumbling through another 48pt season isn't going to make him look like anyone's playoff solution.
I have always liked him but there is an obvious element of risk. Even if he is physically fine, he may have forgotten how to be a #1 center. He will outscore Boz of course, but that is setting the bar pretty low, and his future contract expectations might be a deal breaker.
