So the latest news from the Garden, following their proclamation at the trade deadline that they don't care about the rest of this season, and then the pitiful show last Thursday against Matt Cooke and the Penguins is that Peter Chiarelli has signed Andy Ference to a 3 year deal, rumored to have an average value of $2.5 million for year.
For the life of me, I cannot understand this. When healthy (which is relatively rare), this guy is a 3rd pair defenseman. He is the definition of mediocre, and he can't stay on the ice. So of course, lets overpay him to stay for another 3 years.
I had hoped that Chiarelli had gotten the bad signings out of his system after giving Tim Thomas that terrible deal last season.
I am not going to blame him for the Krejci and Lucic signings, because I think they are both just having down years because of injuries, and will eventually be worth the money. But nearly every other contract he has signed after Chara and Savard has been pretty terrible.
Luckily, he may save some face on the Kessel trade if they get a top 3 pick this season...but even that is getting less likely as Toronto has been playing well of late (including a win over the B's), and with a few more wins could jump over some of the other tanking teams, leaving the B's with a mediocre pick. But even if they do win the lottery, and walk away with a star, does that excuse Chiarelli for trading away their top goal scorer, and not using any of the assets he has built up to even attempt to replace him?