2010 NHL Free Agent Review, Part II: Best of Worst of the East

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Funny thing. When you look at the list of the top 30 scorers in the National Hockey League, not a single one is on a new team after signing as an unrestricted free agent last summer. Same thing for the NHL's top 20 goaltenders in any category. As for the top 20 scoring defenseman in 2010-11 ... okay, there's one team-changing unrestricted free agent from last summer. Yet on July 1 we wait breathlessly to see which teams are going to buy the top UFAs. On July 1 many general managers cannot wait to contact player representatives.

On Tuesday, we graded all of the major free agents signings of 2010 in the Western Conference. The teams in the Eastern Conference snapped up so many, we couldn't possibly get to all of them. Instead, we present the best five and the worst five signings of the summer in the East. To give you an idea of the lack of high quality, they were more than three dozen unrestricted free agent signings in the East -- and we stretched to declare five as very important.

 

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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/05/2010-nhl-free-agent-review-part-ii-best-of-worst-of-the-east/

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