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Originally Posted by kradair  both are restricted free agents so its going to be hard for any team to sign them. |
Untrue... If they make it to RFA status, some team with alot of cap room and the desire to piss someone off can offer them an ungodly amount of money like EDM did with Thomas Vanek and Dustin Penner. Is Dustin Penner worth $4.25M a year for his 23G, 24A, 47P performance? Is Vanek worth $10M a year for his 64 points?
With the compensation for losing an RFA so disproportionate, there's alot of GM's out there willing to shed a few draft picks to get a young player entering their prime years.
Before the lockout it was kind of an unwritten rule that other GM's don't try to poach RFA's from other teams, but after the lockout it's been more of a common practice.