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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Sorry why is it important that we draft those player this year?
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This is if I'm reading into Conroys comments correctly - the suggestion that if Lindholm won't sign then we will "go a different direction". To me Conroy has hinted at the possibility of attempting to re-tool/soft rebuild.
To me the idea would be high draft picks/prospects for our UFA's and then see if one or two players end up being NHL successes in the next 2-3 years. Another year is another year. I would imagine if Murray Edwards was somehow convinced of doing this that you would need to get these players drafted and developing asap to show him some results.
Ultimately it's his wagon and he doesn't like his wagon going off the "make the playoffs" track and he's got a new arena coming that he'll want his franchise toy to be competitive for.