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Originally Posted by Southern_Canuck
It does sting.
When you're a fan of a team, and then a GM basically ruins the team year after year for 7.5 years, it is a drag.
I can't understand why Benning was chasing OEL - like adding a $7M+ past-his-prime defenseman was the answer? He had already drafted Hughes... and had signed Myers. And because he was obsessed with that OEL deal (to correct all his past UFA mistakes - Roussel, Beagle, Eriksson) now Vancouver is stuck with three D making $6M+
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It seems the western Canadian teams hear one of them is looking at a player and somehow create a bidding war amoungst themselves
Flames with Hamonik
Oilers with Hyman
Van with OEL
Every time you hear one of these teams interested in a player all 3 seem to be immediately interested . And then the final price seems crazy - often for a player who wasn’t needed / top need
I think it is one of the reasons all 3 have had such poor performance in the last decade
They forget to point is to make your team Better , not stop other teams from acquiring players