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Originally Posted by Monahammer
How can you justify that statement? We lost our two best players. We gained two unknowns in Weegar and Huberdeau. Yeah, both had performed alright elsewhere, but realistically no one could know if we were competitive or not. Certainly there were open questions about it. The opportunity was there to assess but we bet that we were still in the competitive window. We weren't, but didn't know until we had already made decisions as if we were.
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Look at the roster at the time - entirely composed of veteran players. To replace Tkachuk, they acquired Huberdeau and Weegar. The defense was : Weegar, Andersson, Hanifin, Tanev, Zadorov, Stone and Mackey. The forwards were: Huberdeau, Kadri, Backlund, Lindholm, Toffoli, Coleman, Mangiapane, Dube, Lucic, Lewis, and Markstrom in net.
They ABSOLUTELY were in a competitive window.
Whether that was ill advised, whether or not the roster actually delivered, is irrelevant. The point here was that they were in a window when they signed Kadri. Again - pretty indisputable.