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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Ya, what a terrible idea to spend money on prime players. That is how you become the Arizona Coyotes, selling off all your prime players. No thanks.
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Which prime players in recent history did the Coyotes sell off? Ekman-Larsson? Are you in the "Coyotes should have kept Ekman-Larsson" camp?
Also pretty hilarious that the supposed example of this practice has recently signed overpriced UFAs like Dumba, Kerfoot, Zucker, Kuemper, Jaskin -- which are all examples of what not to do if you're a small market team. Not to mention the prime example, Ekman-Larsson, which the Coyotes extended for 8 years when he was a pending UFA and lived to regret it. Imagine what the Coyotes could have gotten for prime Ekman-LArsson.
If this is the best example of building a player development pipeline failing, well, then I think some here don't quite grasp the concept.