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Originally Posted by dammage79
Hindsight being 20/20 always and forever. Yeah it would have been nice to have Huberdeau prove his next contract and I think Conroy has been alluding to that all offseason.
He's been speaking openly about long term contracts and getting stuck under them with no way out. You can almost guarantee he's talking about Huberdeaus contract.
But I also think Conroy know when his windows are for contract signings. When they're going out there shopping to round off a roster thats in their window to compete consistently, he will open up the checkbook and throw some term around. But not during the building process, unless it's a core player they're bringing up.
I can see parts of his plan and some of the stages he's set for himself. It's smart.
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Conroy has brought up the issue of losing players for nothing a few times. I think that one bothers him as well. I know that he's alluded to some of the other players but I think the Johnny contract still bothers him. We got nothing for the player when we actually had time to do something about it. Seems like Conroy's been a bit more upfront with his players knowing their intentions and then going ahead and trading them. The big deal is that we lost assets for very good players and that hurt the organization in the short and long term.