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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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We're not talking about "in a few years" though. We're specifically talking about 3 years from now instead of four. It is possible to be an issue in 4 years, but it's irrelevant at that point. None of those guys will be ready for a contract. It
may be a cap issue, but highly unlikely.
The cap is going up, and many of those guys may be signing their second contracts in 4 years and 2 years from now. Why is it so important? To me, proper development is far more important.