GGpX
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The same media types in Montreal - Hello Martin Lemay & Guy Boucher - who are all for trading assets for futures want us to keep & re-sign Chiarot & Lehkonen.I'd rather move Armia and Byron as well and I'm fine keeping Lekhonen another year if the offers are too low but I don't have much interest signing his UFA contract after next year.
When a team has second / third / fourth round picks, and they're able to get a player like Chiarot/Lehkonen? They should be high fiving and giving fist bumps all around. Complete and total success. You got a very useful, albeit limited, player that gave you 500+ games of service at below-market value in the best years of their career. Truly excellent value.
But once they reach that time when they're about to hit free agency in their late 20s, under no circumstances must you ever re-sign them. Those contracts all age worse than milk.