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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Well the farm team is the future, so if the main players are AHL lifers, we maybe have a great AHL team but nothing of substance coming up. At the time Sutter went for quantity in the safe picks over the gamble of quality. It's always an argument of do you want a home run hitter who strikes out a lot, or do you want a .300 hitter at the plate. At the time I think Sutter made a good decision. Now that we've got a good base, it's time to gamble more.
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The idea behind building a strong farm team is to be able to call up a player for any role.... if you need a shutdown dman, offensive dman, checking forward, top 6 fill in, etc. there is a guy down there who can fill that role. I would buy this stuff about a "good base" if this had actually happened, but it hasn't. This team has relied on waiver pick-ups and veterans acquired through free agency or trade to fill roles that a team with a "good base" on the farm would be able to fill internally.