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Originally Posted by Jetfire
If you already have players like Garnet Hathaway, Tobias Rieder, etc. who you already know are effective, pay them the 1-1.5m they're worth and call it a day instead of letting that kind of cheap and useful player walk and gambling on unknown free agents to save a few bucks. It's one less hole you have to fill in the bottom 6 that's often created when you bring in players you don't know well, like as you say Dominik Simon or Joakim Nordstrom.
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Absolutely.
Pay for the known entities. Why go back to the mystery box that could be a Rieder when you could just have a Rieder.
Hathaway and Lomberg are other examples.
Identify the talent you need to retain and don't piss it away just to save 300k on a worse player.