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Originally Posted by DJones
You don't have a problem with consistently losing players that would be cheaper and better than what we kept?
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Not if we have options in the minors to replace them. You also have to remember where we got them from in the first place and realize there are probably others available there too.
Take Grant for example, a tweener from Ottawa. Nakladal, 28 y/o defenceman from the Czech League/KHL/Liiga. I can go on.
At the end of the day I agree that it'd be nice to keep every cheaper/better option like Nakladal (I really hope he is retained and think he will be) but I wouldn't say losing him is a black mark, like I had said maybe a grey mark.
I think if we can hold out on buying out Wideman the money we save NEXT year will be more important than what we could lose out on a Nakladal or a Grant THIS year. Especially because we have Cheap/good options developing in Stockton as well.
Now if we lost Gaudreau/Monahan/Bennett, etc... because we couldn't move a contract that's a different story I would have issue with.