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The five worst contract signings of the offseason

By Adam Proteau
The Hockey News

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Calling a particular NHL player "overpaid" is almost always a relative kind of categorization. Why, it wasn't long ago when some NHL GMs were threatening to take half gainers from the rooftops after a deal like Dustin Penner's (which averages $4.25 million a season through the 2011-12 campaign) or Brenden Morrow's (now a downright bargain at $4.1 million a year until 2012-13). Times change, and in the sports world, costs rarely go down, so I'll never use the O-Word (no, not "Obtuse") to describ ...

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