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Originally Posted by freeweed
Vancouver is doing an interesting experiment. It's been a long, long time since a team has tried to build so much, so fast, from free agency.
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Habs in 2009...
Traded for Gomez (
)
Signed:
Gionta
Cammalleri
Moen
Gill
Spacek
Mara
We had one cindarella run the season that followed but that's it. Gomez is out, Gionta signed with Buffalo, Cammalleri was traded, Moen is still there but is often a healthy scratch, Gill was traded, Spacek was traded and Mara retired.
Overall it was a disaster. Free agency never works. It can help but the core must be build from the draft.
It was mainly because of that summer we had a new management.