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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I argue that a building teams go into the off-season and signs Jonas Hiller, Deryk Engelland, and Mason Raymond to market value deals with term. They did that, and made it to the playoffs - and then went even further down that path by making "now" focused moves in 2015. They traded futures for Dougie Hamilton to help compete right away, extended a 32 year old Mark Giordano to a 6 year deal and were trying to make the playoffs.
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Nah there was lots of talk that summer about signing players to get to the cap floor.
I think they were shocked that a team that thin and young, found a way to win despite every metric saying they sucked.
Then they won a playoff series, and started to hurry things up.