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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
I was hoping it'd be a 7x7 to really screw the Oilers over, but @ $5.6M, it's still overpayment. Nurse is Dion Phaneuf minus the offense that Dion had had early in his career. Guy is a 4th dman at best that gets walked around quite a bit.
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The problem is not so much the cap hit (which is still high on a two-year deal), it's the term. $5.6 m was way too much to pay for all of Nurse's RFA years without receiving any UFA years, and it effectively sets him up to make a ridiculous deal in two years—most likely with the stupidest organisation in the League located up North—which will probably make him one of the top-paid defensemen in the NHL.