Ricky Bobby
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That also provides good support for why signing Weiss is a good idea.
Either he becomes important to the team, and would be hard to trade. Or he becomes expendable, and is a free asset to trade for picks/prospects/other players.
Either way, it's a win. That's what signing Beauchemin did for us, and people didn't say "oh don't sign Beauchemin, because he's not a #1 D". So why avoid signing Weiss just because he's not a #1 C? Gives us more flexibility.
Worst case scenario, it's a repeat of Connolly, and he can be put on waivers. Doesn't really affect the teams longterm potential at all.
If we can sign Weiss for 3 years or less I'm all for it. But he'll probably get more term from another team.
If Weiss wants more term then 3 years then I'm not in favour of it because it could turn into a Komisarek type headache.
Weiss is 29, will becoming off a season ending wrist surgery and a lot of player quickly see their games decline around 30.