Some Discussion - How is Free Agency Going & Who is Doing Best

[yahoolando]

Just added Stephen Weiss for $2.5m a season and he should be even better on the ......pumped about adding Weiss with Yandle and Marchand

Wanted a goalie but just couldn't pay that much.  Have a lot to offer in a trade though now.

Totally overpaid for Frank Corrado though!  Booooooo......hopefully uses him on the PP eventually this year

[favo_zomg]

Just added Stephen Weiss for $2.5m a season and he should be even better on the ......pumped about adding Weiss with Yandle and Marchand

Wanted a goalie but just couldn't pay that much.  Have a lot to offer in a trade though now.

Totally overpaid for Frank Corrado though!  Booooooo......hopefully uses him on the PP eventually this year

As soon as I seen your last offer on him, I folded lol. That is a high price for him, but Vancouver's defense looks pretty barren right now. There is a good chance he plays, but who knows how well he will produce.

[Tony]

I think might have the biggest steal getting Ryder for so cheap. 

[SlackJack]

If it wasn't for Zeus overbidding a number of GMs would have got good deals. 

[SlackJack]

If it wasn't for Zeus overbidding a number of GMs would have got good deals. 

Had a closer look....he put out $19m in bids with only $12m in cap space. Caused a real chain reaction forcing me to bid up Schenn after getting pushed off of Koivu and Ribeiro. That's probably just the tip of it....that extra $7m probably did a lot of damage. No small amount to Montreal itself if he ends up moving Schneider just for cap room. Interesting stuff.

[hockeyfreak47]

  I think i did well with not much cap to work with 

Signed 5 palyers ( 2D - 2LW and 1 C/RW ) compiling 6.04 FP/G for $4.5m/year   

some of you singed 1 player for the same price or over and they put up arround 2 FP/G 

[norrya66]

Didn't have much cap room after my deal with Reimer involved, but I did sign Joel Ward and Cody Eakin. 

I like Eakin a lot as a young player, and I really needed another RW, and Ward fills that void.  1.5m/year isn't terrible to pay him.  Probably a little too much, but couldn't afford to get in a bidding war for a bigger named player.

I think is the big winner so far though. 

[yahoolando]

As soon as I seen your last offer on him, I folded lol. That is a high price for him, but Vancouver's defense looks pretty barren right now. There is a good chance he plays, but who knows how well he will produce.

I figured I would give it a shot and stop the bleeding. Worst case he stays in my minor league system.

[Tony]

I figured I would give it a shot and stop the bleeding. Worst case he stays in my minor league system.

[favo_zomg]

I figured I would give it a shot and stop the bleeding. Worst case he stays in my minor league system.

Worst case, he learns the hard way in vans 7th spot and improves for the following season. I see the kid playing well, but I learned my lesson on postma in regards to how much I should pay for young dmen.