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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The Gio decision is the most defendable - biggest name available, one year term only, so a TDL asset. They mystery to me is picking a decent young goalie like Dreidger, but then going out and signing Grubauer (and violating the CBA in their first crack at that too). Even though goalies have a longer lifespan, he's a risk of not being prime when they are competitive, and also a risk of winning too many games for them and taking them out of bottom 3.
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I couldn't agree more. Even with Gio, I don't think it was a bad choice, rather that they painted themselves into a corner with it. If the plan was tank and stock up, getting a pick and a potential prospect would be better than getting a TDL asset that underperformed last season, and would need to be good up to the TDL to be a sellable asset. If the plan was to be competitive, they left better talent unselected. Heck, they left better prospect talent unselected. I think you nailed it with the goalies, and I think that further backs up the theory that whether they were planning on competing or tanking, they obviously failed at execution.