There's always talk of not going "full Oilers" and letting the kids do everything around here. I think if we're interested in doing that then keeping Stajan around is a decent move. If we were to sign a player of his calibre on the open market we would almost certainly have to overpay because not many players will want to join a team that's more or less at point zero, and spend their prime in the basement of the league. Stajan is willing to stay because he's comfortable here, doesn't have to relocate his family and is a part of the leadership core here. He's versatile, and reliable on the ice and seems to be a good guy off the ice.
As long as Burke hasn't given him something stupid in either years or dollars( 5+ years or over 4.5 million) this doesn't really effect our long term plans and that should be the focus of the front office.
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