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Originally Posted by neo45
So why wasn't he traded at the deadline? A 7th for Butler and a 3rd for Cammalleri sounds pretty good right now as opposed to absolutely nothing
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I wish I could thumbs down every post that brings something like this up. Calgary and Abbotsford still had to ice teams. And our coaches still had to build a winning culture.
The thing people who wish we had 12 draft picks every year miss is the contract limit prevents you from carrying that many prospects.
Think of it this way.
23 NHL players
37 contract spots left over
3 year entry level Deals, so if you make 12 draft picks every year and sign them all, no second contracts for guys who haven't "made it" like Ortio this year. No undrafted Free Agents Like Giordano. Because we are already carrying 49/50 contracts.
If you go the other way and pick a bunch of players then only sign 1/2 of them you end up with Stoll or St Louis situations, where we had the rights to perfectly good players but just tossed them away, then you would really have something to complain about.
Take your ~7 picks per year make them count, don't give assets away for nothing even if you are just going to loss them anyways. It will make you look stupid.