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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Exactly.
Mangiapane is our 4th best forward and is performing at an elite level. He scores, defends, kills penalties like an elite forward. These are the types of players you retain. Spending money on high end players like Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Lindholm, and Mangiapane is what top teams do.
Worried about it hurting your ability to fill out a roster? It shouldn’t. Your money should be invested in the top parts of your roster, and then the bottom of the roster is where you challenge yourself to find high value utility players.
Pay the good players, and pay to get rid of the overpaid bad players if required.
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That’s right and Mangiapane doesn’t even play on the top PP unit. Perhaps one day it could be Bread in the bumper spot where he’d do just fine. He’d probably be a perennial 40-50 goal guy cleaning up around the net. Mangiapane is a core piece to me, no trade list.