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Originally Posted by Parallex
Then they don't have the hometown boy to trot out at the NHL awards, they don't have the howntown boy to call the guys just drafted to sell Vegas as a home, explain to the guys and WAGs where the best neighborhoods to live are, schools to send their kids to... and then they have to take the risk that he doesn't sign.
I agree that taking a guy who has poor on ice value pending UFA over the waiver eligibles speaks poorly to the waiver eligibles but I don't think for a second that if Derek Engellends home was in Scranton or Mississauga that they'd take him over one of them.
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Yeah, but Vegas had an exclusive negotiating window to talk to every unprotected UFA before the expansion draft.
They could have easily made a deal to sign Engelland after free agency opened if they really wanted to get one of the unprotected young Flames players.
Engellend signed for $1 million. There obviously wasn't heavy interest there.