His comment was directed at a specific offer of Voracek + Ghost for Gaudreau. Which is extremely lopsided since Flames are downgrading, taking on subpar long term contracts and not gaining any futures in the process. I'm not saying Voracek is bad but his contract is, in the same way Benn's contract is bad.
This is a little unfair.
The last 2 years, Benn as been a sub 55 point player. Voracek has been a 66 point guy.
3 years ago Benn had 79 points, Jake had 85.
Yes Jake is overpaid, but he was heading to be a UFA and got paid and rewarded for having some near PPG seasons all while making just over 4 million.
Regardless, I think this is 2 teams who's GM's could be looking to make a hockey trade, not sell offs as both are competing, and both might want to shake up the core a bit.
We all know predicting a trade is unlikely, but I was just pointing out that the "why are we downgrading from JG" is very likely to happen as I don't see any matches out there where you trade JG+ more, for someone better than him.