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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Worst case most of these young players will slightly underperform or meet the contract. Best case, the team ends up with some big time value on the back half of the contracts.
Hopefully Conroy is someone who's willing to go that route with players like Wolf, Coronato, Pelletier and Honzek should they start to break out. Was never a fan of how Treliving did business with our own homegrown players by kicking the can down the road far too often.
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That's not the worst case. Worst case you have a rookie who scores, say, at a rate of 29 goals and 53 points. So you sign him long term for a bundle (of course that contract only kicks in in his 3rd or 4th pro season). Then he gets worse and worse every year, so that by the time he's in his 5th season (which would probably be the 3rd or 4th of the long term deal) he plays only 40 games and scores 9 points.
Gentlemen, meet Nail Yakupov. Except he wasn't signed long term.