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Originally Posted by Noir
I think Canuckdom wasn't interested in anything else other than a big-name acquisition that will compliment the team. ie. Niedermayer, Heatley, JBo, Gaborik, Cammalleri, etc. which pretty much all of them have been spoken for.
I think everyone's wisened up that minor tweaks to the roster only does minor results in the outcome. Nobody's buying it anymore that all we need is a "minor" addition. Like seriously, who cares that we signed Nolan Baumgartner.
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If you were GM, in lieu of signing the Sedins, would you have signed Cammalleri and Gaborik for the money that they got - $13.5 million? Cammalleri is a proven scorer, but not much else. Gaborik can be a game-breaker, but based on the last few seasons, he's been injury-prone. Maybe he's been fixed up - who knows? Would you have risked $7.5 million over 5 years?
On the other hand, the Sedins are no-nonsense players that make other people better. Anson Carter had 30 goals, Taylor Pyatt had 23, and Burrows had 28 with them. They can kill penalities. They don't dish out hits, but they can take abuse in the corners and have been injured a total of 25 games between them. Moreover, they don't have huge egos like Dany Heatley or Alex Kovalev (arguably still one of the most-skilled players in the league, when he feels like playing.)
I'm sure Gillis pushed hard for Scott Nierdermayer, but he lost out in the end.