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Gainey squashed any/all hope of this with his summer spending spree!

...thus ending 'the dream'!

For the record...the most 'rumored to become a Hab' players of all-time;

1. Vincent LeCavalier
2. Mario Lemieux
3. Eric Daze
4. Marcel Dionne
5. Gilbert Perrault

And-O....LeCavalier for Hamrlick and A.Kostitsyn..

why does Tampa Bay make this trade:
because paying A.K and Hammer for one more season is better then paying Vinny for 9..
why does Montreal make this trade:
he heard rumors of " we need a big trade for big centre"on GoHabs .com
and he can't see past end of his nose effectively crippling the Habs Franchise for at least 5 more years...which by the way is how long his plan usually is for!!

Gainey's best move was NOT TRADING FOR Vinny. Wow. What a disaster averted. I really liked him until I checked out his career stats. People think Gomez is overpaid? Ouch. We may have a new leader in that field.

Imgine having no Markov (for ever) and only 60-70 pts for $10MM to replace him! Holy smokes, boys!

Make no mistake. Gainey would have gladly paid the $10M for a bonafide locally grown super-star.

Instead though...Gainey went on a 'bender' that was akin to a guy who was dumped by his girlfriend that phones her up at 3:00am blitzed out of his mind in order to beg for one more chance!!!

The Gomez deal was an act of TOTAL desperation.

Good eye, Figs. Vinnie has a career PPG average of .85 (compared to say, Saku Koivu at .80 - that's one more point every twenty games).

Back in the day when Guy Lafleur was signing a ten-year deal for one million total, a .85 PPG was considered good stats for a defensive specialist.

You have to admit though Ando, 10 million bucks for 9 (NINE!) years for a pushing-30 guy who's gone through several really cold streaks lately, hasn't gotten his team into the playoffs for 3 seasons, and appears beset by chronic, not-going-away type injuries, is a crazy risk. I'm not saying Gomez was a good deal, just saying Lecavalier might have been even worse. Especially if those rumours that Markov was part of the requested package were true.

Remember the Hossa rumour...now that was scary!

We should be getting in on Kovalchuk.

I would agree on isolating Kovalchuk for next year. What about Marc Savard if we can't get a Kovalchuk? Also, did I hear someone say on a sports show that Vinny is miserable in Tampa, missing Vinny Prospal. May have been Bill Watters on AM640?