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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Hindsight would suggest that this is a guy who matured physically at a young age and pretty much hit his peak at 20 years old, and could not improve after that. Maybe he can carve out 3-4 more years as a crash and bang 4th line winger. But that does appear to be what he is. Maybe he can have a Dan Cleary like resurrection later in his career, but I think that is unlikely.
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There's always some interest in reclamation projects for defensemen, you have to be pretty awful to not get sniffs from other teams with the number of games under mps' belt were he a defender. Just look at Paul Ranger or Cam Barker or John Michael Miles.
But as a forward it's much rarer for a guy like mps to hold much interest as almost every team that isn't being managed by Darryl Sutter already has some prospects ready to fill out the bottom part of their forward ranks if injuries or depth issues strike. Those prospects don't cost the waiver fee, don't add a contract, and give gms the opportunity to assess what they got and to build experience/reward hard work.