I like the guy as a player, but his waiver status would have hung over camp like a death throng ... Calgary still has that issue with Wotherspoon.
that's the league now though.
You have x number of years to make the big club based on age and games played etc through the start of your career. If you don't make it you become a risk because it seems more of a loss when a draft pick walks away compared to a free agent signing.
Vancouver gets more pressure because they traded a recently selected first round pick for him, which is still puzzling.
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