08-15-2024, 07:44 PM
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#451
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ontario
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Pretty much, yeah.
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The Capitals, who felt they couldn’t match the deal that also included a $1.4 million signing bonus and made Stevens the highest paid blueliner in the league at the time, let Stevens walk in exchange for a grand total of five first-round picks.
Those five first-round selections turned into just a single season of Stevens in St. Louis, though. During the 1991 off-season, the Blues eyed up another big-time restricted free agent, New Jersey’s Brendan Shanahan. After inking Shanahan to a three-year, $3.015 million contract that the Devils couldn’t match, the Blues needed to find a way to compensate New Jersey as St. Louis’ first-round picks were locked up by the Capitals.
As the story goes, the Devils asked for Stevens as compensation, but were instead met with an offer that included Curtis Joseph, Rod Brind’Amour and two draft choices. New Jersey declined the offer and chose to take St. Louis to arbitration, where a judge ruled in favor of the Devils and awarded them Stevens.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comm...er_sheet_saga/
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