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Originally Posted by Table 5
I hate this type of short-term thinking. Yes, we have a ton of cap room...at the moment. But in a few years, that might not be the case, and that extra few million a season might be the difference in keeping existing players or acquiring other talent. If a lot of these young guys (Sven, Gaudreau, Poirier, Klimchuk, Jankoswski, Gillies etc. as well as more mature guys like Brodie) pan out, they'll all be wanting some serious money. At some point money will be tight again...it's best to guard against that as much as possible.
Sutter gave out NTC's like it was candy because there was the ability to do so... then a few years later, we were stuck with a bunch of players we just couldn't move and it set us back a few years. Let's not make the same mistake by being careless with contracts when we have a lot of space.
There are many reasons to keep up Sean Monahan...but a "who cares, we have a ton of cap space" argument should not be one of them.
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Not the best way to inspire loyalty in the young players by costing them a million dollars when they'll have to go back to juniors and earn their $200 a week. If a player isn't ready, or would be better off developing in juniors, it's one thing. If you're sending him back because you don't want to pay him essentially, you wont have to worry in a couple years when he's bolting as a UFA anyways.