MayorofWBS
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What about FSG makes people think they don't want to win? Yes, the stakeholders want to make money but I don't see manta of "as long as we make money winning is a plus". I think Rust has a higher chance of being shown the door. He's a good winger but not an elite winger. Do you go 7-8 years on a good but not elite winger? Maybe if Sid/Geno were younger.I mean maybe... fair point. But these guys sell tickets on name recognition alone. You'd think they'd like that over the unknown. There are no guarantees that Pittsburgh can land some highly desired free agents right out the gate to take the reins. That's a dicey proposition in a smaller market, especially.
EDIT: Like Dude said.
The key to Geno/Letang contracts are not being caught with +35 penalties if things go south and they want to bale out if we go longer term with each. Actually, I think we'd be okay going 5 years with Letang. Sure, it might bite us in the butt towards the end but the probability that we have someone to replacement him as the #1 RD? First line RHD don't grow on trees and teams don't like to give them up (either as roster players or prospects). We don't have anyone in the system to replace him. I still think we'd get 3 good years out of him. Even if we got super lucky and we hit on a RHD in this year's draft, that player would still have some development time in JRs/college/AHL and then NHL. So most likely, that RHD would still be on his entry level contract at the end of Letang's contract. Marino's contract coincides with a Letang 5 year contract. I'm a firm believer that you need to draft your #1 RD as they are hard/painful to acquire outside of that.
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