Is this a joke?
-Nyquist is a small, high skill player. The Flames have a systemic abundance of those between Gaudreau, Czarnik, Ryan, Dube, Mangiapane, Phillips, and Zavgorodny. They also have some guys who are on the soft side in Monahan and Lindholm in their top six. They just got rid of Hunter Shinkaruk for a similarly talented Kirby Rychel because of how redundant Shinkaruk became in their system. Not only is Bennett just as or more skilled than Nyquist, he's younger, cheaper, under team control longer, bigger and more physical, has comparable edgework, probably faster, and significantly more versatile. He's simply more valuable than Nyquist as-is. When it comes to value, if Larkin and Bennett were to swap places in terms of opportunity, Larkin would be putting up Bennett numbers and Bennett would be exceeding Larkin's numbers, quote me on that. That's the kind of value Detroit would need to offer to get a conversation started.
- Even pretending they were to trade away Bennett, the Calgary Flames have the following left shot forwards who would play ahead of him on the first PP:
Tkachuk
Gaudreau
Monahan
and the following left shot forwards who would play ahead of him on the second PP:
Backlund
Neal
(Bennett)
Jankowski
and still yet, have left shot forwards who provide better versatility, more two-way potential, and lower cap hits
Dube
Frolik
Mangiapane
- Now back to Nyquist's contract, he is a nearly five million dollar pending UFA. Which the Flames cannot afford to re-sign to term anyways even at the same cap hit, and if they could, they'd be far better off spending it on a better UFA, like Micheal Ferland.
- And finally, on top of all that, you want Calgary to add draft picks?
Preposterous.