Does Beane have a cousin or in-law who knows about hockey and financial management?
Like how ****ing bad do you have to be at your job as an NHL GM to turn a free, cost controlled 2nd or 3rd pairing PMD out of a Euro league into literally nothing?
And it would be one thing if he got squeezed out by other talented youngsters, but no, our dumbass GM decided to keep Zach Bogosian around years past his expiration date and our dumbass coaches kept playing him to the detriment of the team.
This has nothing to do with Bogo.
They have 5 under contract for next year.
Risto
Miller
McCabe
Dahlin
Jokiharju
Montour and Pilut are the RFAs.
If I'm Pilut, and I assume both myself and Montour are going to be retained. It also looks like at best , I'd be getting 3rd pairing minutes, with the reality more like I'm the 7th. He likely asked to be traded to somewhere that there wasn't a logjam in front of him, and didn't get his wish, so he took his only other real option he had.
Pilut will also be a Group 6 UFA soon. He turn 25 in December, he's already hit the 3 pro season requirement, and he will absolutely be under 80 NHL games at that point.
I do think JB needs to be criticized for not getting something back for him once it became clear he wasn't going to crack the roster, and with group 6 on the horizon.