Sal_Butera
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That wasn’t the order: as Molson said on Melnick’s show. They had come up w a plan $$ allocated for a 5-yr deal to Radulov offered in Jan that season, and 1-yr heavy bonus contract w commitment to renew yearly to Markov, Alzner to replace Emelin who they were going to expose to VGK expansion draft at same AAV, and Drouin was acquired in June to add desperately needed offense after NYR playoff loss. Radulov took that same contract to Stars to match, since no one was willing to offer more term or $zHe actually traded for Weber, signed Radulov and traded for Andrew Shaw that summer, so it was not the only move. Galchenyuk was coming off a 30 goals season so there was a lot of hope on his having another good one but it didn't happen. Then after a strong start, the team went on a losing streak, Therrien got fired, Julien hired, team recovered but Julien wanted an heavier team and we went on a spree a the deadline for beef instead talent and sure enough we couldn't score. We did win the division that year.
But then Markov and Radulov left and MB made a fateful trade for Drouin and signed Alzner and that was the last "good" season we had.
All that from Molson’s own mouth