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Salvaging Bad Deals in the Post Season
by Alanah McGinley on 06/12/09 at 02:11 PM ET
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From Eric Duhatschek at the Globe & Mail:
Once in a while, these long-term commitments between team and player develop into a happily-ever relationship that works for both parties.
On a great many other occasions, however, the marriages don’t work out the way they imagined – and the price of divorce is high.
In the next fortnight – or from the time of Friday night’s seventh game of the Stanley Cup final until the first day of the entry draft in Montreal two weeks from now – NHL trade talks will heat up.
Increasingly, virtually every one of these possible transactions is going to be filtered through money, money invested in the flush of the last two free-agent frenzies that has not paid good dividends.
Contracts that were signed amid great hopes and expectations and – for reasons of injury, underperformance, or just the simple lack of a good fit – have backfired will now be shopped around the league, to see if there’s a willing trading partner.
more with a list of the 10 worst contracts in the NHL right now
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And the Rangers have three of those contracts. How different would things have been if the Rangers had resigned Michael Nylander instead of Scott Gomez
Posted by bsalamon on 06/12/09 at 03:17 PM ET