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Originally Posted by Five-hole
I don't mind PTOs. It's the trading for or signing the Gazdics, Bartkowskis, Nick Grossmans, and Mark Smiths of the world that bother me. It's easy to cut a PTO, it's way less easy to press-box or send to the AHL vets getting paid actual dollars.
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PTO's are fine when you need vets to fill out pre-season rosters (especially the first split squad games). The mistake is keeping these guys around too long, taking away ice time for the young guys to show their stuff.
The Nik Grossmann fiasco should never happen again; I know what Treliving was trying to do with the Smid/LTIR situation but part of that was on Gulutzan for thinking he could make it would work.