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Originally Posted by bluejays
I’m not surprised at all, as days ago when there were no rumours it indicated a little they’d be looking to give these guys a vote of confidence. Looks to be true. On one hand, I’m glad they didn’t sink more into a sinking ship. On the other hand knowing it’s a sinking ship, and the market being hot in previous days really they should have been smarter to unload some pending FAs while they could. This is why we’re middling.
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There are the pending FAs:
Lucic - NMC and no one wants him.
Lewis - no one wants him. I like him but everyone has a Lewis.
Ritchie - no one wants him. Everyone has a Ritchie
Stone - hurt
Mackey - no one wants him, plus he's RFA with arb rights anyway
Duehr - don't trade this guy.
2024 UFAs they have. But those guys are a lot harder to move versus in the off season, plus I don't think they want to move them anyway.
I think their strategy is to write off this season as cratered by bad goaltending and try again with Markstrom hopefully rebounding and with Wolf in the wings.