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Originally Posted by Itse
I'm leaning towards a B-.
I feel this team really needs to add another forward, and finding nothing from an unusually cheap UFA market does feel like missed opportunity... buuut there's always the chance that that cap space turns into something a lot more valuable later, and it's not like we need a forward right now. The move we didn't make now could allow us to make a better move later.
Tanev I think is likely to become a bad signing. I don't expect him to play up to that contract more than maybe one year. He does address a need though, but other than that I think it's both too much money and too many years.
Markström is a great signing. While there are risks involved like with any goalie, there would IMO have been more risk involved in any other option. This is money spent in the right place, in the right guy, and I think the length and dollars are perfectly acceptable.
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With the Nordström signing I'm bumping this grade to B+.
TBQH I don't know much anything about Nordström, but he seems like the kind of cheap signing I was hoping we'd make; fast, physical, hard working and hopefully useful on the PK (which would take some of the PK load off offensively better players.)