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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Yeah the team was trying to address character issues - as they had gone through a period of time with a lot of lazy but skilled players. So then they swung the other way and traded for hard working but unskilled players.
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And cheaper players. It’s easy to forget how disadvantaged most Canadian teams were before the salary cap came in (and the Canadian dollar took off). Small market Canadian teams weren’t operating in the same league as American and big-market teams. I expect Coates was under instructions to shed salary in most of his deals.