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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Depends on team goals. If you're trying to remain competitive go look elsewhere, you need players with term. If this forces you to rebuild, look for draft picks and futures. I get the idea of bringing in Huberdeau and Weegar and rolling the dice in trying to sign them or flip them. After the debacle of Gaudreau and Tkachuk I would have looked for some stability and not rolling the dice. I'm hopeful this all works out, would have pushed for more immediate certainty, mostly because I've become risk adverse over the years.
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There isn't much risk if you set your own internal deadline to get them signed, like they essentially did with Tkachuk.
If you take it into the season, play well, get forced to keep them, then lose them for nothing it was a big mistake.
The mistake hasn't happened yet.