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Originally Posted by hotjoint
great game last night. Man Sammuelson is awesome. I hope we can lock him up longterm after his contract is over. He seems to always score a goal every game or every other game
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He's a good FA pickup but he isn't a very long term solution here. His contract is for another two years after this one and he will be 35 at that point, which is getting rather old for forwards.
Anyone 35 and over should be signed to no more than one or two year contracts. Gillis isn't retarded. That's why Sundin, Demitra, etc weren't offered more than one or two years.
The guy we REALLY need to lock down long term is Ryan Kesler. Then Mitchell. Mitchell is invaluable to this team. I'd like to have Ryan Johnson here too but he isn't getting any younger either.