Big John T
Joined: Sep. 2018
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I understood losing Komarov and Leivo
I think we need to stop giving up our versatile and cheap guys now. To find Brown we had to cycle through many different names over years. If we lose Johnsson/Kapanen/Brown/Hyman we're auditioning to build a whole new bottom half of our roster from scratch. We're not going to find replacements that are as good and as cheap unless you plan on waiting years developing them.
If somebody fits (contract and team chemistry) while being #1 in their role, they stay. Anyone who doesn't fit is who gets moved, no matter the cost because that's just what the price is for maintaining a window of cup contention. It's no different than moving out guys who lost their ice time to someone who won it from them, except it's about value/cap instead of value/TOI.