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Originally Posted by Ashasx
The thing is, if we still need Stajan around in even 2 years to shelter players, the rebuild will have already failed.
So if the rebuild goes according to plan and we don't need him to shelter players anymore, what do we do with his contract?
In both scenarios it's a mistake.
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That's a pretty simplistic viewpoint.
At the moment it's between him and Backlund for who our "#1 C" is but it's not like he's having to completely shelter Monahan, Colborne, etc as well. I'd be very surprised if in 2 years he's the guy still "sheltering" the rest of our C's as it'd mean everyone else regressed, no one on the farm/we drafted stepped up
and we didn't manage to acquire anyone else in the meantime.
And if it were to reach that point then it really says nothing about him or this new contract he signed.
If he no longer needs to play top C minutes then him and his contract go down to the 3rd or 4th line. It's not like we're hurting for cap space if it reaches this point and it's not like Stajan hasn't been in this role before on the team. Rest assured, if the younger guys start stepping up the organization will shuffle Stajan around to make room for them.
A big reason I'm happy with the signing is that Stajan not only can be a servicable guy in any role during or after the rebuild, but he's okay with playing any role as well. I think he understands where he fits into the team today and where he might fit in tomorrow, and he still chose to re-sign here.