Earlier today, the San Jose Sharks re-signed potential UFA Patrick Marleau to a four-year deal worth US$6.9M per year and potential RFA Joe Pavelski to a four-year deal worth US$4M per year. Sharks’ GM Doug Wilson’s signing of Marleau makes absolutely no sense, especially since Wilson has the correct mindset to let undertalented goaltender Evgeni Nabokov become a UFA on July 1st. Unless Wilson is now going to deal Marleau to a club who could use an under-achieving, over-promoted floater, it’s a bonehead move. (more…)
On June 24, 2010, In Hockey, By Big Mouth
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