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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
You are seriously using that he isn't signed by July 4th as the premise of how Butler wasn't good? What a ridiculous premise. All it means is that he hasn't accepted an offer yet, for all you know he has half a dozen offers on the table and is mulling them over.
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Like in Europe or the KHL? I tried hard but I'm having trouble coming up with six teams that he'd be a good fit with in the NHL right now. I don't think he slots in to the depth chart of a single team in the west. Plus it sounded like he wants to be closer to his hometown of St. Louis. In the east, there's what? Carolina? Florida?
He's in a real tough spot. He doesn't figure into a contending team's depth chart. Bubble teams have already signed their hyped FA guys to make the push (see the Washington Caps) and rebuilding teams would rather save a spot for a kid coming up.
I'm really interested to see where he ends up.