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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
When was the last time the Panthers had a BIG free agent signing?
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I will go back to Loungo, who has his family in Florida and resides in Vancouver alone during the season, like alot of players.
The 'city' is a long way down the players list of choices when it comes to signing, money, ice time and playoff success/organizational strength come first and even if a player has a wife who doesn't want to live in Winnipeg or Detroit or any where else for that matter the players make enough money to keep several homes and travel between them.
If Winnipeg ices a crap team, has a crap management and picks a lousy coach they will have trouble signing free agents, if they have a good organization and develop a half decent team, make decent draft picks and spend to the cap they won't.