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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Zucker on pace for 28 goals and in his prime with term. Frolik has 4 goals and is falling off a cliff. Pelletier is still playing junior.
1sts arent pez, but Treliving is trying to win while the core is still affordable and Gio hasn't expired yet.
Thats this season plus two more. Frolik and Pelletier arent helping this core win anything, Zucker would have been much more helpful in this window.
By the time Pelletier is any help at all, Johnny will either be gone or making $10 million plus, Mony will be on his last year, Tkachuk will either be gone of making $10 million plus, Backlund will be 35 and Gio will be 39.
If ownership nixed this deal then that just goes to show you why this franchise has been nothing more than an also ran for the last 30 years.
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Disagree with your last paragraph. I see it as they've learned their lesson from the iggy era where all they did was spend draft capital to keep milking every drop they could out of that core.
I still look at Chicago and how they added inexpensive assets to a core they kept drafting and churning up. Spending your 1sts every other year isnt good. It also is not good to negotiate 1sets as consistently as Tree does.
I'm not saying dont trade draft picks to make your team better. I'm saying that you have to have more in the cupboards before you do. Otherwise you slip into that silly cycle again from the iggy era. Where you keep trying and trying and you end up with empty cupboards, bad contracts and staring down a total scorched earth rebuild.
Everyone's worried about centers. You have to draft those. Otherwise you're overpaying for middling talent.
Gotta keep building this thing in the draft. And if we are questioning our core today why would we be spending our future to compliment them? Makes no sense. Have to draft replacements.