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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Why? Because you say so?
Hudler is slow, old, small and injury-proned. And he was a free agent.
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Hudler is a perennial 55 point forward who creates plays in man-advantage situations, can deflect point shots, and despite being slow, old, small, helped drive a line with Gaudreau and Monahan that generally scored more, rather than less, goals than they gave up.
And injury-prone is good leverage for a GM to make a signing.
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Again because you say so? And BT didn't let Cammalleri go. Feaster did.
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That is absolutely false. Treliving lowballed Cammalleri in negotiations after his contract ran out.
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I didn't say Jokipakka was better. He's not. But would you want them to have Russel back at his ticket?
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3.1 million dollars for just one season for a player that, for all his flaws, would be our fourth best (or at least fifth-best including a rookie Kulak) defenseman? Every time. We're paying nearly as much to our sixth-best defenseman who isn't even a regular skater on a playoff team.
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A reach to criticize him for letting a player go that he didn't. Raymond was a bad signing. Meh.
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Burke, Treliving, same management.
I'm not sure how much longer you want to wait for Treliving to put this team in cap hell (which in turn, eventually forces us to trade Gaudreau or Monahan or Tkachuk or Bennett or Nolan Patrick because contracts in this league immovable unless they are your star players). I can already see us losing a good young cost-controlled player with upside, like Kulak or Ferland to expansion in order to protect overpaid overrated third liner Troy Brouwer, and I can see us making a terrible overpayment signing in the offseason like Alzner to fix perceived holes that such signing won't actually, truly, genuinely, fix. I don't believe Treliving is going to find solutions short term OR long term. I'm not sure why I should, outside of the reassurances of people drinking the kool-aid.