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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Trading Gaudreau for futures and not signing hall is the best play out there. Maintaining cap flexibility to take on bad contracts for serious asset value is the best play out there. Taking on David Backes earned Anaheim a 1st round pick and a prospect all for moving a player they weren't committed to long term anyway.
Helps you bottom out, removes any rose coloured ideas you have about the roster. Begins a commitment to dismantling this failed re-tool without a 2015 run jeopardizing your internal structure.
Trading a draft pick for the right to pay taylor hall 56 million dollars does the opposite of those things.
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That depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to compete now, none of what you've said in this post is the best play, and I would bet ownership wants to continue to try and compete.
I think they should rebuild myself.