This is the same failed playbook that Feaster and Weisbrod tried in Calgary.
Sign an albatross defensive contract that isn't worth it the moment it's signed that will hamstring your organization and their ability to re-sign their actual good players when their window should be opening up. Tyler Myers contract looks like it will stink just as much as Wideman's deal sucked the life out of the organization in his final 2 years.
Keep trading out middle round picks and a high value pick here or there for warm bodies.
Move your best trade chips for relative peanuts and watch in 5 years as the roster bottoms out as the organization is too asset poor after not accumulating picks during a time frame when accumulating picks should've been relatively easy.
5th round pick for 26 games of Philip Larsen
2nd and a 4th given up in the deal for gudbranson who is then turned into tanner pearson
4th round pick given up for pouliot
7th round pick given up for luke schenn
7th round pick for mazanec
3rd and 1st for miller
These all stink like Galiardi for a 5th, Corban Knight for a 4th, Comeau for a 5th, Karlsson for a 7th, 2nd round pick for cammalleri, 6th round pick for 1 game of Lane McDermid, Colborne for a 4th etc etc etc.
Right now Regehr +2nd for Butler and Byron looks like the worst deal of the bunch but give it a season to see how bad the canucks are next year and the Miller deal might blow the doors off.
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