His agent would be asking for more. This is his time to get paid.
Good luck getting anything close to that with the comparables.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
I am.
His agent would be asking for more. This is his time to get paid.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
I am.
He can definitely try. And I think he will see what’s out there. If he wanted to sign I don’t see why it wouldn’t be done by now. You’d have to think that this close to his free agency he’d at least see what his value is.Good luck getting anything close to that with the comparables.
I am.
The problem isn’t Monahan.
It really is though. Without an elite #1 center this team will be set adrift among the wildcard wreckage until the end of time. He is averaging 17 more seconds of ice than Backlund and is pacing for 55 points.
Watched it with Craig Conroy. Watched it with Olli Jokinen. Watched it with Daymond Langkow. Watched it since we traded Marc Savard for nothing. Until you have a center of Bergeron, Kopitar, (prime) Toews, Crosby/Malkin, Kuznetsov/Backstrom, or a 23 pt in 26 game Conn Smythe winning Ryan O'Rielly's caliber your team is destined to be an also ran. This game was Gaudreau's career in a nutshell.
I don't hate Monahan at all and I don't really need us to trade him for anything that doesn't make sense, but it's clear he is miscast as 1C on a contender. Until Treliving and the Flames find a center better than him, Backlund, Bennett, Ryan, Lindholm and whoever else they'll spin their wheels in the playoffs forever.
Any retool talk is fluff right now. Ownership had to be forced into a rebuild by our aging core and barren prospect pool. The day Treliving proposes a “retool” is the day he’s putting his family photos in a cardboard box cleaning out his office.
Yes Sean and Johnny have had a bad start but that does not preclude the team from coming into form and going on a magical run as is shown by this history. I believe the Flames need to find their second scoring line for them to find a 1a-1b line where depending on the night either is and can be a force.
Calgary is close if Backlund can keep producing and Sean and Johnny get hot.
Most concerning to me right now is how bad the Flames are on the back end without Hamonic and Giordano. The Boston game should have been a win.
Some time you have to be realistic. It's almost the end of Feb. Even historically, they were never hot in that timeframe.
Well I guess there’s different kind of retools? Because I keep seeing talk of taking 2 seasons or so of downtime to retool, that’s basically a rebuild, not happening right now.A retool does not mean you sell off(thats a rebuild), a retool can be done, by changing out core pieces and making hard decisions.
I guess if you are fine with 9th place or first round exits... enjoy then
I doubt if that is enough for eichel....guys like him never get trade unless they request it or massive over pay..,..yeah yeah Gretzky was traded onceIf we could somehow swing a Joe Thornton/Tyler Seguin type trade to get a elite 1C...my god man.
*Fantasy Cap on*:
At the draft: Monahan+Hanifin+Mangiapane+Brodie’s rights+2020 1st+2021 1st for Eichel+Risto.
Shoot Janko and Hammer into the sun this off season.
Sign Hall+ Vatanen this summer. (Get Hall to take a hometown discount).
Hire Laviolette.
Bring back Czarnik, Quine, Reider, Rinaldo, Benny and Talbot.
Hall-Eichel-Gaudreau
Tkachuk-Lindholm-Czarnik
Bennett-Backlund-Dube
Lucic-Ryan-Reider
Quine
Giordano-Andersson
Vatanen-Ristolainen
Valimaki-Kylington
Davidson
Rittich
Talbot
I’m on my phone so I’m not sure if the cap would work out...and our prospect depth would be f*cked for a while but idk I’d definitely do it.
Well I guess there’s different kind of retools? Because I keep seeing talk of taking 2 seasons or so of downtime to retool, that’s basically a rebuild, not happening right now.
If they trade Johnny or Mony, it’s going to be a semi rebuild, because I don’t see any viable hockey trades that make the Flames better right now, offseason things open up, but I still don’t see ownership approving any sell moves.
Many people on these boards use Ryan O'Reilly as their example of the center Sean needs to be yet many forget it took him 3 clubs and 10 years to get to that point.
Ok so how do we get an elite #1C?
Sean is our Phil Kessel. Everyone hates him for what he’s not. Is he an elite 1C? No. Does that mean he doesn’t help us win games? No.
He just takes everybody’s crap because he’s not Patrice Bergeron. Players like that are never available in trade.
Ok so how do we get an elite #1C?
Sean is our Phil Kessel. Everyone hates him for what he’s not. Is he an elite 1C? No. Does that mean he doesn’t help us win games? No.