[Flyerfan808]

I agree about overkill on defense, I would argue however, that the best sign/trade was O'Donnell. 1M for a solid 3rd pairing guy.

we could have just done:

Gagne(5.25)-Richards(5.75)-Zherdev(2)
Leino(.8)-Briere(6.5)-Hartnell(4.2)
JVR(.88)-Carter(5)-Giroux(.82)
Lappy(1.16)-Betts(.7)-Carcillo(1.08)
Powe(.73)

Pronger(4.92)-Carle(3.44)
Timonen(6.33)-Coburn(3.2)
O'Donnell(1.3)-Marshall(.8)
Bartulis(.6)

Turco/Mason/Ellis/Biron/Niemi (2)
Boosh (.9)

HIT (58.36)
CAP (59.40)
SPACE (1.04)

*EDIT* ok, probably not 2M for Biron. I just think that if we offered 2M we could have had our pick of the lot.