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Moving Dollars
by Paul on 07/03/09 at 12:38 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Some final thoughts following another wild week on the NHL free-agent front.
Even as teams spent staggering sums of money – upwards of half-a-billion dollars – to either secure their own unrestricted free agents, or to sign players away from other teams, you wonder if the frenzy is less about the actual dollars going out, and more about the roster and trade gridlock that has smothered player movement in the NHL’s salary-cap era.
Think about it.
In the old days, if a team wanted to change its culture the way the Montreal Canadiens did, they could do it any number of ways, at any number of times during the season. The trading game was never easy exactly, but it was a lot easier than it is today, when every move is filtered through the team’s chief financial officer before the hockey operations people get a crack at it.
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