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Free agency's early winners and losers

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

This is reminiscent of Christmas morning, standing knee-deep in crumpled wrapping paper, boxes torn asunder, ribbons in the hair or behind the dog's ears and the overwhelming feeling of … that's it? This is how NHL general managers must feel when they survey the free-agency landscape. Less than three days into the free-agency period and almost every top player was gone, swooped up in an orgy of spending that makes one wonder what the heck the lockout was for. Of course, seeing the Minneso ...

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