SpezDispenser
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To be fair, by the time Ottawa makes the playoffs it may be a total of 3-5 years before Stone would get to play in the playoffs again had he stayed in Ottawa. I don't think this was a shot at the team. Vegas will be a playoff presumably team for years to come. Whereas in Ottawa he would be part of a rebuild.
We live in an age where every off hand comment is the next Watergate.
I bet Ottawa would have missed next year and then made it as a Wildcard if Stone had stayed around. It's so quick in this new NHL and teams are so close that with Ottawa's young players and prospects and picks and Stone (and Duchene), we would have been good and relatively quickly in my opinion.
But...yeah, that's life.