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Originally Posted by Goriders
If you’re going to kneecap the team by dumping all of your veteran UFAs why in the world would you keep Markstrom.
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Because Markstrom can show Wolf how to be a #1 goalie in the league. Vladar can't, because he has never learned how himself.
Mario Lemieux said the most valuable experience of his career was being on the 1987 Canada Cup team with Gretzky, who showed him how he had to play to win a championship. Crosby said the same thing about his rookie year with Lemieux.
Institutional memory is a real thing, and it's important. And it is very, very hard to rebuild once it's been lost.