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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Wideman's offense is freakin' useless when his consistently bad defense costs you games.
Disconnect between Fans and Managers in hockey. Guys who can kill a game for you are not desireable commodities regardless of their personal accomplishments.
There's a reason Wideman's only steady tenure in his career has been with a largely basement dwelling flames team and a Boston Bruins team that shipped him out and won the cup the next season.
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Here's the thing: Is Chicago, LA, or Washington going to go after Wideman? Of course not.
But there a lot of teams (some Canadian) who aren't very good, where defence is a problem, and where an offensively gifted but defensively liable Wideman is still a huge upgrade for their top 4. Just because contenders aren't going to be begging to acquire Wideman doesn't mean no teams are.
If the reason for your above situation is because Wideman is only desired by non-contending teams with less than stellar GMs, lucky us, that's a wide net.