Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Oh-lund oh-shit

Mattias Ohlund signs with the Tampa Bay Lightning (7 years, 3.75 million)

Winner: Ohlund. No need to be clever here. Ohlund’s career is in decline and all Canucks fans saw it in the Blackhawks series. To score a seven-year deal for about the same money he was making in the prime of his career? Tampa ownership has done it again.

Loser: Every other General Manager. Unfortunately, the marketplace is dictated by deals like this one and the Bouwmeester deal, and so even though economists are predicting doom and gloom for the cap over the next few years, the price of defensive help just went up.

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