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Originally Posted by Royle9
I agree with losing a lot of those guys for nothing, but let me play devils advocate here.
How do you expect to build a winning culture, an identity and a team that can compete for a cup when you basically show all UFA’s that if you commit here but ultimately are “old” and even though we gave you a NMC to come here because you want stability for your family that we will ultimately tell/ask you to move anyway and disrespect your contract essentially?
You won’t. Plain and simple.
You’ll never attract a big name UFA to the market, you’ll jeopardize your ability to sign your prospects and ultimately destroy your room and team culture simply for a lottery ball and a B prospect?
Doesn’t make sense to me, but I do understand the angst having lost a lot of our guys for nothing, but those weren’t Craig’s decisions for the most part. He made best of what he could for Tkachuk and that was getting Huberdeau off of a record breaking season…
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The "tank" people have only their logic and can't see anything else. It's like this in every sport. There is a subset of the fan base that thinks the team should be "tanking" in their specific scorched earth style and no other option is up for discussion.
It's the same way that all teams have that subset that needs to "fire the coach/manager" for reasons that they almost can never explain.