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Originally Posted by dammage79
Moral of the story in regards to the "Dodged Bullets" according to two or three posters. Don't try. Because no other team was trying to get these players either.
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Not sure if I am one of those posters but I would say the moral of the story is don't overpay and/or give away young assets when your team is a long ways away from contending and adding those guys aren't going to make a difference in terms of competing for the Cup or not and likely still have you as a non-play-off team anyways.
Adding Richards or O'Reilly doesn't make this team close to a contender now or in the next 5 years and in their own way hurt the team long term. The financial handcuffs that they would put the team in would hurt it when it actually could use that money in 3-4 years when they (hopefully will have guys worth spending it on.) The picks given up for O'Reilly would help to handicap the needed cheap players needed when you are overpaying a 2nd line center by as much as we would have on the O'Reilly deal.
Feel free to try all you want just don't make stupid decisions and try for guys that don't make sense at where your team is.