Quoting: Icedragon4405
Nichuskin, Mikheyev, Gaudreau(if he wanted to go big), Marchment, Copp, Burakovsky, Rodrigues, and more are all great winger depth he could bring on and he needs to sign at least 2 wingers if he doesn’t trade for any.
I have no interest in going massive on Gaudreau. I understand people want a 100pt player, but spending $11.5m-12m x 7 years is too risky when I do believe we will have to pay the talent we have here.
I hate free agency overall. I'm a strict conservative as I believe very, very, very few work out for a team. More of them become albatross deals teams try to move (see Tatar who isn't so much a very expensive one, but not worth it). Look at TB, none of those top players are UFAs, they just filled in the gaps. Ditto for COL. CGY's biggest ones are Coleman, Tanev, and Markstrom.
If Fitz can overspend on a winger with the intent of making it a 3 or 4yr deal instead of a 5 or 6, I'll take that. It's the term on those FAs that hurts most as the vast majority of FAs have already peaked.