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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
Not sure I agree with this. Dale Tallon took over in 2010 after an eternity of losing and not getting any better. He quickly started trading away guys like Horton and promptly fired Pete DeBoer. They've been building through the draft, and only last year were they starting to get somewhere with that process. Huberdeau was one of the key guys in the rebuild, along with Barkov and now Bjugstad, and losing him to an offer sheet would cut that rebuild off at the knees.
It would honestly be like someone offer sheeting Sean Monahan. How pissed off would you be?
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I have no opinion of an offer-sheet one way or the other, but the longer he goes unsigned the more realistic it becomes. Yeah I know Tallon's trades and his tenure there and I think if he was analyzed under a microscope like a Canadian GM he would be gone after the 2014 season. I can't think of a single year in the Panthers existence where they weren't an emerging young team just on the cusp of making the playoffs. Well obviously besides a few one and done years. They've been drafting top 5, top 10 forever.