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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
There is a lot of wiggle room between long-term contract and pump-and-dump. The OP suggested 4 years, I think if you can get a two-year deal, that's optimal, but anything between 2 and 4 years is fine.
I agree with Bingo that you don't have to do it in the summer - we have too small of a sample size on him. Let's see what he looks like for the first 40 games of next season, and then assess.
But as FBI and others have said, there might be a really good player there - no need to immediately hit the pump-and-dump button every time someone plays well. His addition to the PP has made it dangerous for the first time in 2 years or more. We ask/expect STHs to cough up large sums of money every year, to support a team that we want to have here at home, so let's at least give them some entertainment once in a while.
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I agree and will make a statement that is a bit more blunt
Remember, plan A wasn’t to fail to sign good players and then trade them at the deadline as rentals
What Conroy said was that if a key player wasn’t going to sign, he would be traded, he would not be lost for nothing
It doesn’t seem that nuance landed with the armchair GMs saying they should pump and dump
A skill player on a good contract has way more value than a pending UFA