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Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 6:52 p.m.
Thread: gaudreau
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ChrisNapoleon</b></div><div>Can't wait for people to say "Jackets decline" without explaining</div></div>
Much of the time, the explanation's already been given so many, many times over that it ceases to be interesting to do so and responses become merely rote actions delivered just for the sake of reminding people that our team has its own ambitions in the League rather than existing to fuel those of others.

In this case, the reasons for the "no" are:
* we're in no hurry to move Gaudreau; he's been more than fine here
* Lee's capacity as a potential mentor would be useful but that's literally the only value he'd have here
* the pick is of no real interest because the prospect pool here has already been built - we're at the "grow and develop the kids" phase rather than "add more kids" - and the pick isn't high enough to get someone good enough that it'd be worth setting that aside.