I might get banned for saying this but people who keep saying Simmonds (consistent 50 point/year power forward who is nearly impossible to strip the puck from, good in the crease, good skating/puckhandling, plays hard every single night), is equal to a guy whose best season was 32 points in 70 games, was doing way worse than that pace this year, and has no interest in doing the hard work to get back to his best, have something other than performance coloring their judgement.
There's no reason for one of the lower scoring teams in the league to be talking about trading their current leading goal scorer, even if he was terrible at everything else, which Simmonds is not.