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Originally Posted by TOfan
Sure, if you look at it through the lens of today.
The point that was being made was the Sabres did not sign any boat anchor contracts during their rebuild, which they certainly did. Or, at the very least, would have been considered boat anchors at one point in time. All you need to do is go back a couple years when it was widely believed Jeff Skinner’s contract was one of the worst, if not the worst, contract in the league. Okposo’s was also widely acknowledged as a terrible/immovable contract.
Things change.
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But these players would not have been considered veterans at the time they were signed. You removed the word “ veteran” from the qualification which completely changes the meaning and presumably the time line.