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Originally Posted by jg13
Seattle passed on Kylington for free.
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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
So did every other team.
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But Seattle didn't even have a roster or farm team at the time. Other teams had their own players that they needed room for and had already invested in. Kylington was exactly what an expansion team should have been interested in.
The COVID situation reduced the mobility of players between the AHL and NHL last season which was a big part of him not getting into a lot of games last season, but the season before, you could see that he was close to becoming an NHLer. I think too many people under estimated him.
I wasn't shocked that they picked Gio, but thought Kylington should have been the guy the whole time. I think Seattle was trying too hard to be the next Vegas without realizing that what Vegas did was extraordinary and expansion teams on the whole needed to be thinking 3 years into the future.