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Originally Posted by moon
He deserved the contract because Kipper got hurt. If they were signing him due to his play they would have done so earlier and not picked up Joey Macdonald on waivers.
A one year, minimum deal is a bother?
He would have been easy as pie for another team to sign but the fact that every team in the league has a guy similar or better than Taylor in terms of NHL potential in their farm system means that the guy was unsigned going into the season and not needed by other teams in the league.
The organization that ran the farm team he played on didn't want to sign him to a deal until an emergency injury forced them to quickly grab someone and even then he was replaced a couple days later when someone else came available.
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Every team in the league has at least 2 guys better than Taylor, likely 3 and maybe 4.