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Originally Posted by CSharp
Castoffs or not, some were really good players that weren't protected due to some trans protecting other assets. They also made some pretty good free agent signings. But overall, every single player bought into the system, which is unbelievable. That's a very good team.
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We call them castoffs but they are proving to be very good players who maybe weren't in position to succeed with the clubs that drafted them. It just so happened that McPhee picked skill over so called intangibles and experience. May have been easy to take a guy like Brouwer for example because of supposed experience and leadership but instead he picked players that could skate and had talent and passed over washed up veteran players. I simply think there are way too many veteran players in this league that aren't very good anymore and while the Golden Nights may not have the most high end talent in the league they also don't have many washed up players taking ice time away from faster, younger players. They have four lines that can skate and that's a problem for a lot of teams that can't hide their worst defensive pairings and 4th lines against them.