Hugemanskost Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Who do you think the worst Free Agent signing in NHL History might be? My choice? Mark Messier to the Canucks in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeak Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Wade Redden to NYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Murray Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Wade Redden to NYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grape Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Wade Redden to NYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockhart Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Marco Sturm, Matthieu Schneider.... For recent Canucks signings anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Signing Messier was a disaster for both the identity of the Canucks and the on-ice product. Giving him the C was idioC - add the fact that he coasted on his past for the rest of his career - absolute train wreck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wizard of AZ Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Bobby Holik @ 9.6mil and 8.85 mil a season. He put up 16+19 = 35pts in his 9.6 million season and 25+31 = 56pts in his 8.85million season. Or maybe Jeff Finger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Chris Gratton back in the late 90's. I think he made something like 9 or 10 million bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugemanskost Posted July 8, 2012 Author Share Posted July 8, 2012 Great call on Redden, Ladies and Gentlemen! Chris Drury and Paul Martin have to be up there, too. How about Cristobal Huet for a keeper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoosh Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Jeff Finger has gotta be up there amongst the worst ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cIutch Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Marco Sturm, Matthieu Schneider.... For recent Canucks signings anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyFox Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 guy makes thread about the worst free agent signing ever and you post marco sturm and mathew schnieder these posters have the lifespan of a fruit fly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 In terms of length, how about Dipietro. The guy's going to haunt the NYI organization for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefCon1 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Coming from the moron trying to say we didn't need burrows lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Hmmm, some that I can think of are: Kovalev to Senators Messier to Canucks Nylander to Capitals Holik to Rangers Smyth to Avalanche Souray to Oilers Gomez to Rangers Finger to Leafs Redden to Rangers Avery to Stars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teen Icarus Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/30/ten-biggest-free-agent-busts-in-the-nhl 10. Jeff Finger Cliff Fletcher, the architect behind one of the best trades in Maple Leafs history -- stealing Doug Gilmour from Calgary in 1992 -- found a way to give Toronto the Finger. As Leafs GM in 2008, Fletcher signed the virtually unknown defenceman to a four-year, $14-million contract. After a season and a half, the Leafs cut their losses and sent Finger to the minors, making him one of the highest-paid players in the AHL. 9. Chris Drury The New York Rangers bought out Drury's contract Wednesday, closing the books on one of the worst free-agent signings in team history (but not THE worst). Drury, coming off a 37-goal season with the Buffalo Sabres, was awarded a five-year, $35.5-million deal by the Rangers in the summer of 2007. He had two decent years, combining for 47 goals, then completely fell off the map, scoring 14 times in 2009-10 and just once last season. 8. Sean Avery The Dallas Stars, at co-GM Brett Hull's insistence, threw $15.5 million over four years at the yappy winger to lure (yes, that's sarcasm) him away from the Rangers in 2008. Considering Avery was a 15-goal, 250-PIM guy better known for unleashing verbal shots, not shooting the puck, it was a serious overpayment. Early in his first season with Dallas, Avery popped off about Dion Phaneuf's girlfriend and was eventually waived. 7. Cristobal Huet Touted as the answer to their goaltending troubles when then signed Huet to a four-year, $22.4-million contract in 2008, the Chicago Blackhawks soon found out he was actually more of a question mark. After two seasons of making Nikolai Khabibulin look good, Huet was run out of town. No other NHL team wanted him so Chicago paid the Frenchman more than five million bucks to stop pucks for a team in Switzerland last season. 6. Alex Kovalev NHL know-it-alls go on, ad nauseum, about Kovalev's legendary skill-set, but in 2009 the Ottawa Senators quickly found out his talent took nights off after they signed him to a two-year deal for $5 million annually. Despite making first-line money, the enigmatic Russian played more like a third-liner for the Sens -- he had 32 goals in 131 games -- before Ottawa shipped him on to the Penguins for a seventh-round pick last winter. 5. Scott Gomez In his first two seasons with the Rangers after signing a seven-year, $51.5-million deal in 2007, Gomez had 32 goals combined. Not bad if you're pulling in $2 million a year. But at nearly $7.5 million a pop? Maybe not so much. Of course, nobody realized those were the good years for Gomez. The Rangers had had enough of the centre's underachieving ways and traded him to Montreal in 2009. Incredibly, his production dropped off to 19 goals in 158 games as a Hab. 4. Bobby Holik At one point Holik's five-year, $45-million contract with the Rangers in 2002 was considered the gold standard for dumb deals. After nearly a decade with the New Jersey Devils, where he topped out at 29 goals and 65 points, Holik got to pad his retirement fund when he signed with the Rangers. Over the next five years, only two of which were spent in the Big Apple, Holik had 82 goals, an average of just over 16 per season. Pedestrian numbers, indeed. 3. Brian Campbell Somehow the Blackhawks found a way to dump Campbell -- he was dealt to Florida during the NHL draft -- and his nearly untradable contract, finally getting out from under the eight-year, $56.8-million mistake they made in 2008. But that doesn't change the fact Chicago GM Dale Tallon somehow believed Campbell, who had a career year in 2007-08 (eight goals, 54 assists) with the Sabres and Sharks, was worth roughly the same money as, oh, Nicklas Lidstrom. 2. Sheldon Souray The Edmonton Oilers thought they'd found their power-play quarterback when they signed Souray to a five-year, $27-million contract in 2007. He turned out to be hockey's Ryan Leaf. Sure, injuries slowed Souray down but, for the most part, the Oilers weren't getting what they paid for. He didn't help matters when he asked to be traded in 2010, a demand the Oilers responded to by putting him on waivers. When he went unclaimed, the Oilers took the cap hit and sent him to the minors. They bought him out Thursday. 1. Wade Redden Redden, through no fault of his own, has become the poster-boy for free-agent foolishness. (Hey, when somebody offers you a stupid amount of money, are you going to turn it down?) Rangers GM Glen Sather must have thought Redden's declining play in Ottawa was a result of circumstances, not ability. Whatever the case, two years after signing a six-year, $39-million pact with the Rangers in 2008, Redden found himself riding the buses in the minors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugemanskost Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 That's great, Teen Icarus. Nice article from the TO Sun. What do YOU think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugemanskost Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Coming from the moron trying to say we didn't need burrows lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teen Icarus Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 That's great, Teen Icarus. Nice article from the TO Sun. What do YOU think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossi Vaananen Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Campbell might be overpaid but he's still a good defenseman. I don't know if he should be as high on that list as he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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