diceman934
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We attempted to Trade JVR and the offeres were underwhelming hence he is still here. I never thought he had as much value as many on here think. Remember Blake who scored a lot of goals for us but was a one dementional player and he had a very low value. Same with JVR a lazy winger who is 6’3” who plays like a 5’10” winger who has been on for more goals against them for as a Leaf. Flyer moved away from him as his compete level is simply not there. Not a huge fan of his game.I get what you're saying but there was a good counter argument in this case which is that since we're locked into the playoffs anyway and since we will be underdogs in the 1st round with or without these pending UFA's, we could have traded them and still probably end up getting the same amount of PO experience.
Of course this would have needed to be done a while ago before we went on a tear but had we done this in January this would have made a ton of sense. And the other side of the coin is that we could actually win the cup so there is that.
I hope you're right but many people were saying the the same thing about JVR last summer. Not sure those situations are so drastically different that we can count on them not letting Gardiner reach UFA status with us when we just did the same thing with JVR.
Gardiner is a different circumstance as he is a good skating D man who can run a PP and is a dependable D man who is a top 4 D man. He will be moved or resigned this summer and I say it is about 50/50 at this time. Gardiner has good value in a trade.