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Originally Posted by Bingo
I can see why people like the idea of Bishop in Calgary, I get it. He has a track record and he's an instant upgrade on a team that looks like it's ready to take a step.
So if they had done it I'd roll with it knowing it was a 2 year good news story, followed by 2 years of ups and downs, likely followed by two years of cap hell through an expensive back up or a four year buy out issue.
But I go back to what I said about Oshie ... stay away from other team's high end free agents. Do that and you avoid 6 or 7 big mistakes compared to one "win" over a window of X number of years.
I guess there's a book on baseball and walking away from your own free agents that states you lose that asset, but you avoid the hell of the decline at a high ticket price and end up with more flexibility to avoid complete rebuilds.
Makes sense to me ...
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I do think you need to look at goalies differently though. They seem to peak later. And with an AAV under $5M the cap hell risk is minimized.
The theory of staying away from other teams big ticket free agents is a sound one but it applies to your own players as well. The Patriots are an example of a team that lives by the motto that it's better to release a player a year too early than a year too late.