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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Callahan turned down 6m x 6yrs from the Rangers, IIRC.
So it'd probably take a 7m x 6yrs offer from us to get him..... Can't be doing that.
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I think the deal Callahan turned down was 6 x 5.5M.
...which even at that, for a player who is already trending down and has never scored more than 54 pts (which was his only 50+ point season), is awful.
He's 29 years old.
I want no part of Callahan via free agency. Overpaying for "character" guys like that is a bad, bad way to build a team (see: Clarkson, David).
When we do adventure into the free agent pool, do it the way Chicago did it.
If you're going to pay big, pay big for the high-end, elite players. Otherwise, sign smart, short term deals with veteran guys who fill specific roles on your bottom 2 lines/bottom 3 d-men.
There's a pile of guys like Callahan who have signed as free agents over the last handful of years, and they're never worth it. Ryan Clowe, Ryan Malone, David Clarkson. All bad contracts. Callahan will be another.