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Originally Posted by burnitdown
I think fitness levels and injuries actually tie in pretty nicely together.
Either way, it's too bad it's not front loaded as it'd be nice to know he'd be much more tradeable if we're pushed up against the cap in a couple years. I just want to avoid a situation like Boston where cap issues forced them to trade their young studs (Seguin, Hamilton, Lucic) because there wasn't a huge market for a high-priced aging dman (Chara).
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Maybe but I was talking specifically about fitness level and ability to still play at a high level late in your career. Whether or not Gio is healthy is a different argeument than if he is actually capable of playing at a high level. Obviously you wan't both but being healthy is kind of irrelevant if you suck. The fact that we hear similar things about Gio and Iginla's fitness could be promising given that Jarome is still playing and contributing at a pretty high level. Gio has injury troubles already so hopefully they do not continue throughout this deal but to me fitness is the most important because there is no point in being healthy if you can't play.