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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
What was Chiarelli thinking when he made that deal? I think the Canucks were the other team interested in Lucic at the time but considering the player lost a step already at that time he should have been thinking about making the contract up so the last few years were somewhat buyout friendly.
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It epitomizes the crippling insecurity that festers in the frozen tundra of the north.
Edmonton believes the only way players will come there is if they offer market resetting contracts. They don't understand that a) most free agents are dog#### and b) when you conduct yourself as a professional organization that doesn't do stupid and embarrassing #### on the regular, you don't have to hand out market resetting contracts to keep players.
It's not the city. Winnipeg has kept Wheeler, Buff, Schiefele, and Hellebuyck. They didn't blow their brains out to get it done. They may have had to pay a premium, but the Cold City premium is a lot smaller than the 'we're run by an embarrassing pit of vipers from which free agency is the only escape' premium.