IFF, I wasn't even that psyched on picking Briere because I'm always scared by guys who just signed big deals like he did. A dip in production for the first year of that deal is seeming to become the norm. But he should be playing with Gagne and he's got the 8th best PPG rank since the boys came back from the lockout. Of the top 25ish of that group though, he's the only one on a new contract.
I would say, considering Marian Hossa is playing for a new contract and was taken one spot ahead of me, I was really hoping he would slip one more spot, so he was the one I wanted once we were far enough into it.
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