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Originally Posted by Joe Canadian
He was the best player on the market this year.
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mikev, he's probably not as bad as I think he is, but I can assure he's not anywhere near the best player on the market this year. In 61 games 47 points is respectable, but he's just not the Bill Guerin of old. He is 36 after all. When you compare him to the likes of Forsberg who was traded not too long ago, Jagr who Sather has said is on the block, Ryan Smyth?, and even Bertuzzi who was great at the beginning of the year, he's just not close. Then you've got players like Roberts, Tkachuk, Smolinski, and Nagy. That is more where I'd put him albeit maybe at the front of that group. Bottomline is any team would be pleased as punch to get him. It's just a matter of whether you value your first round picks even more.