Why Is It So Slow?

from Lyle Richardson of Spector?s Hockey, The real reasons for the slow market this summer are two-fold; lack of depth of quality talent and too many teams with little available cap space. Heading into this summer?s UFA market many observers agreed it wasn?t as deep in talent as in previous years. Kovalchuk was the only superstar available; after him the depth of talent noticeably dropped with most of those available being aging stars passed their prime. The notables included Paul Kariya (35), Marty Turco (34), Evgeni Nabokov (34), Sergei Gonchar (36), Pavol Demitra (35), Jose Theodore (33), Ray Whitney (38), Mike Modano (40), Saku Koivu (35), John Madden (37), Owen Nolan (38) and Bill Guerin (39). This list of names would?ve been impressive, say, five or seven years ago, when all of these players were still in the playing primes. Of those available who are in their primes ? Afinogenov, Lee Stempniak, Denis Grebeshkov ? most of them would?ve been considered second-tier in a much deeper market. more

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