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Old 01-04-2024, 02:45 PM   #15411
Goriders
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Originally Posted by butterfly View Post
There is no replacing 27 year old Nylander. You are signing up for 28-to-35 year old Nylander if you choose to. And each iteration is projected to be worse than the last. That’s not the same player.

If you use draft picks to create a perpetual pipeline of possible future 18-to-27 year old Nylanders, you capitalize on their artificially suppressed ELC salary years and make other teams pay for the sucker’s contracts.
Take a rip through the last 30 years of Flames first round draft picks. I did the other night. Not many Nylanders in there.

Yikes.
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