"You never want to say nothing's possible, but we got to the point fairly early in free agency where we'd be looking at names, and it was, 'Is this guy better than X young player in our organization?' That's what we're kind of weighing.
We're at a point where if we're bringing in a guy just to bring in a guy because he's played in the NHL before, he's going to end up blocking one of our younger guys that might end up having a bigger, more positive impact on the team."