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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I think the team vision was to supplement the core of Gaudreau, Monahan, and Giordano with mostly drafted additions. The emergence of Gaudreau/Monahan as an elite (offensive anyway) duo and Gio as a Norris candidate made the team get impatient and move its plans forward.
NHL GMs don’t have a blank canvass to paint with. The draft takes years and years to pay dividends, they have no control over who’s available as UFAs (and have to overpay for the players who are), and trades are far more difficult to pull off in today’s NHL than fans want to believe.
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The Bennett failure was catastrophic to the plan IMO.