Calgary is one of those markets where you have to overpay a little bit for most good free agents to consider playing here.
We overpaid Markstrom and Tanev (salary and term) and so far it's working out. We overpaid Brouwer and Neal and it didn't work out. That's the gamble you take with free agency. I don't think you can really blame Tre for going out and trying to improve the team. If this team never tried to make any free agent signings, we would still be middle of the pack team and the narrative would be why isn't Tre more active in trying to improve the team, etc.
Personally, I prefer the slow draft and develop route. But that requires some serious patience and it's difficult to do with this fanbase and ownership group.
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