Stajan's contract, both when extended and now, is not that much different from a lot of veteran centres of his age, many of whom do not play top 6 minutes.
It's not that easy to find a centre who can play pretty much on any line (eg. if Monahan went down I'd probably leave the 2nd and 3rd lines alone and put Stajan up there, similar to how Engelland went from bottom to pairing with Brodie), is a faceoff winner, is a leader in the room and will accept whatever role is given. And when the chips are down, like last night, he performs. His line could easily have potted two or three.
Now this thread is actually about Raymond, who is nowhere near as versatile. But it's a shorter term and his price tag is also what you pay UFA 20 goal scorers. When he was signed it was unlikely Johnny was going to make the team and Josh Jooris was not on anyone's radar at all. That's two left wing positions to fill and Treliving also knew that this was likely Glencross' last year.
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