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Originally Posted by JJ1532
Will we? We may well draft another centre on Friday and have a 3 of Backlund, Monahan and Bennett/Reinhart, but if we were near the bottom 5 near the trade deadline, would we shift some of the vets, take the short term hit and try and finish in the bottom 3?
This is the big problem when a touted generational prospect comes along. You only have to look at how it benefitted Pittsburgh on 2 occasions to know that every poor teams hierarchies will give it some serious thought.
I wouldn't put it past Burke tbh.
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Things like that don't work for us. The prospects we call up to replace the traded vets play out of their mind and we just miss the playoffs.