This is a question mainly for Tabris but any Vancouver fan can answer. Would you guys ever trade either of the Sedins? What would be your price?
With Crosby out, I don't think there's a team that could give us the 2 superstar players back that would do as well right now. The Sedins can just completely take over games sometimes, and while you can highlight their failures (Boston series, Nashville series, Chicago series the years before, the years before the last 2), they have come back the next year to fix the things they needed to fix to become better players. They are a lot like Crosby in that way.
The hard thing is there is nothing that compares right now out there but the Sedins only have 3 years of peak hockey left and around 5-8 years after that slowly declining. Thankfully due to their hockey sense and hands being their major skill, they should be able to last much longer in age than other players, but wouldn't last as long as a young combo of players.
I don't know, that's a tough question. I don't think I would due to us competing right now. You can give all the commentary you want about the playoffs, but they completely won 1 series for us and did really well in the other one. I know they've come back to improve those couple of things to win the cup this year.
Also they have the best contracts of any of the superstars currently. $6.1M per year with 3 years left (exactly the window for their best performances). Ovechkin+Backstrom is too expensive for what you get against the Sedins and how they've been running cold often. Crosby+Malkin is too much risk with knee and concussion. Getzlaf+Perry contract is running up very soon and they aren't consistent enough.
Maybe closest to what I would want (contract vs what they bring vs age) is Kane+Toews but we already have Kesler to facilitate what Toews brings, and they don't bring as much offensive power as the Sedins do (still tops of the league though) right now.
