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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Don’t you want to rebuild? Why would you care if the Huberdeau contract was on the books if so? Gotta pay somebody.
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Because Hubredeau is good enough to keep us from drafting 1st and instead getting the 5th pick overall.
I don't think Hubredeau is a bum or a bad player in anyway. I think he is a very good player. I just don't see anyway in which he is here and we have a team competing for anything more than hoping for a break to get out of the first round.
There are plenty of guys to pay if all we are worried about is making the floor while finishing as low as possible. Guys like Kadri, Coleman, Mangiapane, Markstrom are the contracts I want, big paydays for guys that won't move the needle on wins or loses, assuming the Markstrom doesn't bounce back and at his age/history I think that is unlikely.