« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2010, 05:56:52 PM »
Sidebar: BBD has seriously bad luck: great playoff performance, but no offers due to his restricted status, so he takes the 2-year deal from the C's, only to have that expire right before a potential lockout and new CBA that will probably negatively affect the guaranteed length/money that a role player like him would be likely to get.
The second part of that isn't bad luck. Everyone already knew last off-season that a lockout looked extremely likely. I'm not certain, but I also seem to recall that BBD's rookie contract was structured a bit abnormally because he wanted to hit free agency early.
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