... except Yandle and OEL. You break the bank to keep that guy. There's a money limit and I don't know exactly what it is, but Yandle never gets hurt and he's the kind of defenseman who is going to age like Niklas Lidstrom and Sergei Zubov. When he's old and retired, we'll look back and say he played his best hockey from 32-35. (... and call me on it in 15 years if I'm wrong haha)Richards is enticing, Lecavalier isn't. That said, given Richards's history, the Kings being willing to trade him to us could be a huge red flag.He made a couple this summer. Sam Gagner is 8th on the team in scoring, 6th among forwards, which is approximately where he should be. We got him for 1/2 of a 6th! Vitale and Dubnyk were both deals this summer. Klinkhammer for anything is a win too. Not robbery, but a win.
I started to write, "don't totally write off EDM for Mike Smith because I could see massive renovations happening up there this summer and a big-time goalie could be part of it" but then I remembered that DM gave him a NMC. Why the **** did he do that?