Welch's First Big Career Decision

[Juice 641]

Whenever making a big decision, it really makes you wonder what is the best thing for you as well as for those around you. Short-term benefits and long-term benefits. Does it make you happy? Does it make you successful? You have to weigh many different factors down before committing to anything, and even then you still might regret your decision down the road.

 

Kristof Welch's first big decision is up, and it's something that is taking quite awhile to consider. This decision is relating to his expiring rookie contract, and the plan on where to go from here. For most who would have talked to Welch pre-draft interview, they would have been told that Welch wanted to be a career long piece that didn't want individual success, but as long as he would be known as a franchise piece and can help lead a team to success, that's all that mattered. However with how his career has panned out thus far, neither team success nor being a top member of the blueline has been achieved.

 

Due to trades, Welch has been the 4th best defenseman on the team from year one until year three of his career up until the trade deadline where both higher TPE defensemen Killinger and Giant were moved for forward pieces as well as draft picks. Sitting at the 2nd best defenseman on the roster is now something that finally brings some happiness to an overall unsettling feeling the past season and a half, as maybe now this top earner can be recognize as a main piece on the blueline. However, the past feelings of being kept in the shadow of sorts hasn't completely faded.

 

Thus, right now Welch's future is up in the air. On one hand, does he keep his pre-draft promise of staying with one team his entire career now with the moves Toronto has made? Or does he goes elsewhere to become known as a team's go-to guy on the blueline to hopefully achieve that goal of feeling like a franchise piece?

 

The season is only half-way over, and good talks with the management in Toronto have been underway, however in short time a decision will be made and hopefully that decision will not be one full of regret.

[dlamb 1,326]

[bigAL 2,176]

Making a thinly veiled trade request two days after the trade deadline? That’s a galaxy brain move. 

[Spartan 4,402]

5 hours ago, dlamb said:

someone said gulag?

[BOOM 8,745]

Whatever happens, all the best.