Fansided

One player on each NHL team that should be traded

By Jeremy Lambert

MONTREAL, QC - JANUARY 07: General manager of the Montreal Canadiens Marc Bergevin addresses the media prior to the NHL game at the Bell Centre on January 7, 2018 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-2. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
MONTREAL, QC - JANUARY 07: General manager of the Montreal Canadiens Marc Bergevin addresses the media prior to the NHL game at the Bell Centre on January 7, 2018 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-2. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) /
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CALGARY, AB – JANUARY 24: Matt Stajan #18 of the Calgary Flames skates against the Los Angeles Kings during an NHL game on January 24, 2018 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Gerry Thomas/NHLI via Getty Images)
CALGARY, AB – JANUARY 24: Matt Stajan #18 of the Calgary Flames skates against the Los Angeles Kings during an NHL game on January 24, 2018 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Gerry Thomas/NHLI via Getty Images) /

Matt Stajan. 27. player. 112. . C. Calgary Flames

Prior to putting Jaromir Jagr on waivers and working out a buyout with the 45-year-old forward, he was my pick for Calgary to trade. Not only did I feel that Calgary needed to trade Jagr, I wanted them to trade him to one team, and one team only. The Washington Capitals. I wanted to see the two greatest goalscorers of their respective generations on the same team. I wanted to see Jagr back in the playoffs, trying to push Alexander Ovechkin and the Capitals past the second round for the first times ever.

This is not only what I wanted. This what needed to happen for the sake of the NHL and NHL fans around the world.

Alas, Jagr is heading to Europe and the dream of seeing him and Ovechkin together is dead.

So, instead of trading the 45-year-old Jaromir Jagr, the Flames should look to trade the 34-year-old Matt Stajan. He had a modified no-trade-clause, but I’m sure he’d be willing to go to any number of playoff teams. Stajan has spent the majority of the season on the fourth line and is an unrestricted free agent at the end of this year.

In a perfect world, the Flames trade Stajan to the Penguins in order to reunite him with Phil Kessel. But only for like a period or two in the Stanley Cup Finals, just to see Toronto fans freak out and be angry. Or they trade him back to Toronto in exchange for a Dion Phaneuf bobblehead.

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