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He wanted to come here the first time he was a ufa, but Bergevin turned him down, allegedly because of his concussion history.
But the league became less physical, and MB was going for speed two summers ago. He should have outbid St. Louis's measly 4 million AAV offer. Amazing how a player's market value dropped because of one mediocre playoff. Then the next year he has another good regular season and is a key piece in winning a cup.
The UFA market is MB's weakness. Here's a Quebecer who wanted to come home (we could have used adding more Quebecers, the ability to add a local kid that wants to come home, to our advantage) and he passed. Sigh...
Perron was one of the worst Vegas players (with Tatar) during those SC Finals before becoming UFA. That's the reason why Perron was not re-signed by Vegas, and Tatar packaged to MTL for Patches.