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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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He WAS a perennial 55 point forward. What are the chances he reaches that again?
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
That is absolutely false. Treliving lowballed Cammalleri in negotiations after his contract ran out.
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I guess. But by that time he was a pending UFA and unlikely to take any sort of reasonable offer.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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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So the solution to a bad contract is to add another?
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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Ah the kool-aid blast. Never gets old.
I'm not sure exactly what you want Treliving to do. You blast him for handing out contracts while also blasting him for not handing contracts to guys like Hudler, Cammy and Russel. So which is it? Do you want him to supplement the team by paying UFA prices for vets or not?