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Winners & Losers
by Paul on 07/02/07 at 01:26 PM ET
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from Scott Morrison of the CBC,
The likes of New York, Colorado, Detroit, Toronto, Philadelphia all had their cheque books out on the first day of free-agent shopping. And almost all got goofy with not only the dollars, but the terms in the contracts. Five, six, seven, even an eight-year deal, the values from $6 million to seven and change on average. And two players will earn $10 million next season.
All of which has prompted more than observer of the game to ask aloud: And what exactly was the lockout suppose to accomplish?
Well, the spending is linked to revenues, so there is overall control. That’s what the NHL wanted.
more and who won and lost on day 1 of the UFA signings…
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Rating winners and losers of the UFA market is as risky an undertaking as it is in ranking trade deadline moves.
If you want to talk about which players landed the top UFAs, fine, but they’re no guarantee of winning a Stanley Cup. Of the major UFA signings made since the lockout, only one - Scott Niedermayer - led his team to a championship.
As TSN noted yesterday, these moves fail more often than not, and they’re worse than trade deadline deals because teams can end up saddled with immovable contracts.
Posted by Spector from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 07/02/07 at 12:34 PM ET