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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Useful to what degree?
You need middle players - and veterans - to help get that winning team.
Here's a list of the over 30 players on the Avalanche last year:
Andrew Cogliano
Darren Helm
Jack Johnson
Erik Johnson
Darcy Kuemper
Pavel Francouz
Jayson Megna
Heck, even Nazem Kadri at 30!
You don't throw away useful players when they play a specific role and they perform that role well.
To throw players away simply because they're on the wrong side of 30 is poor team management.
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Yeah but...we can't get top players when we have a bunch of good support players firmly keeping us in the middle of the pack.
Again, it's not throwing away.
It's "How do we get our Mackinnon, Makar, Landeskog, Rantanen"
Those are the hard pieces to acquire. It's not all that difficult to find good support players - plenty are available every summer at UFA premiums. Even for smaller, less desirable markets like our own - we do a pretty good job of finding good support pieces in free agency...we need to build a top-end of the roster that can actually win though. We don't have like...any players that fill those slots.