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Originally Posted by Bingo
Poor management?
Really?
I think if you think he is an NHL player and will play a role you are probably happy to have that second year locked up and not have to give him a raise a year earlier.
It's just management. Plain and simple. They made a call which they have to do on pretty much every player's contract progression. You don't have to agree with it for sure but contracts like Mackey and Dube to a degree are progression calls.
If you get it wrong and a player plateaus it's a mistake (Andersson to some degree), if you get them right you have a year or more of breathing room before you have to boost a player.
But poor management? It's just management.
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Yes really. There's good managing of your resources, and poor managing of your resources in any business and I'm sure you'd agree.
I guess you're saying the only way to get Mackey signed for two years was to give him one way for both years. The player had no leverage and he is 8th on the depth chart.
Maybe he's honoring a promise made when they signed him initially. Only thing that makes sense.