Claypool
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- Jan 12, 2009
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The offseason is where you make the big time deals generally, the Seguin, Hamilton, Saad type deals. The major problem there is that Holland hasn't made a deal like that in the post cap era.
Would you rather have Dylan Larkin right now or Tyler Myers? Because those are the types of deals you're talking about here. How about Dion Phaneuf instead of Anthony Mantha? Nobody would be ok with Jay Bouwmeester now instead of Tatar and/or Nyquist, either. Holland has stated repeatedly every offseason that the plan is to be paitent and build through the draft because the players they need are hardly ever available anymore. There's no sense in selling the farm to take a run when this team's window closed many years ago.