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Originally Posted by ComixZone
He already is top six.
He scored 17 even strength goals, that is 3rd on the team behind Lindholm (21) and Tkachuk (18). He did it in less than 14 minutes a night.
17 even strength goals is top 60 in the league. Brayden Point had 17 even strength goals.
1 season is a small sample size, but his first full season and the partial year before it presented the opportunity to buy-in on a player who is likely to establish himself as one of the better two way wingers in the league, and is already absolutely a top six forward.
I think signing Mang for two years is as big a screw up as signing Tkachuk to a bridge deal was (different scale though). Brutal contract management in the bottom six has caused the team a cap crunch today, and will cause cap issues going forward.
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It's not really a screw up when you don't have the cap room.
Mangiapane was a perfect bridge deal candidate imo and I'm glad Treliving didn't sign him to anything close to what some were proposing.