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Originally Posted by butterfly
GM’s job to evaluate that. Though I’m not sure if you and I got in the same room together we’d be wrong appreciably more often than any of them are.
I agree to pay the stars, but you draft them and pay them after ELC. How many stars weren’t drafted by their team? Panarin, Zibanejad, Miller, DeBrincat. Tkachuk? Reinhart I guess but someone’s about to think he’s a star and overpay. Eichel, but that’s a long story. Adam Fox forced his way out like Tkachuk.
Not many.
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Star UFAs have typically stayed on the same team that drafted or traded for them. Gaudreau, Tavares, and Panarin are the exceptions. I think it’s pretty simple in the sense that teams should sign their star UFAs while in playoff contention and trade them when they aren’t. That is hard to pull off in practice though, especially when their job is to win a cup. Most teams end up firing the GM that failed and they leave a mess to clean up.