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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
Their positional need is what's keeping them from drafting right before or after the Flames this year and perennial contention.
Some prices are worth paying. You can't keep all your assets and young players and also have championships. Sacrifices have to be made. Look how aggressively Vegas has pursued the pieces they needed and how it's paid off. Tampa Bay's cupboards are still bare from pursuing championships, but those moves paid off for them too.
NJ is in that window of time where those are the moves they have to be making. Otherwise they'll just carry on indefinitely being a more talented Arizona Coyotes. Always sitting on a pile of good young players and assets, but never taking the next step. Locked in some kind of development hell.
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Tampa looked for young guys, and cheap value contracts.
Also, frankly their success was because they chose the young Vasy (who was legit BAD at that time), over the older Bishop.
They were good for a WHILE before they went in, and didn't really ship out any young, productive roster players.
Brayden Points rookie year at age 20. Imagine if they shipped him away after that disappointment vs CBJ