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"While Wild holdout Marian Gaborik was skating informally with the Bucks Unpainted Furniture amateur hockey team the other day at Bloomington Ice Garden, some NHL alumni who were there to work out yelled to him, "What part of $9.5 million don't you understand?" The former NHL players can't understand how Gaborik could turn down a $9.5 million offer from the team, especially considering the NHL's labor deal expires next year."

Charley Waters, Pioneer Press Oct. 29, 2003

And this seems to be the underlying thought among alot of the Wild fans I know. IMO Gaborik is getting screwed by his own greedy agents. :):)

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To me, this is a very surprising turn of events. Gaborik just stormed out of town, what, 2 days ago saying the Wild wouldn't negotiate, etc? And now he signs?

I can only think one of 2 things happened.

1. He listened to agent advice which he didn't like the last couple of days, and finally had enough and went against that advice and signed

or

2. His storming was a ploy. He was more than happy to eat crow as long as he gave one last bluff which the Wild called. Since it appeared his pseudo-tantrum was not going to result in additional $, he quickly took the deal offered.

I've been wrong on everything else, so I suppose you can rule these two out. :D

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Greedy sports agents are one of the biggest reasons why sports is like it is now. Miserly owners and greedy players are the other reasons. Heck, if it weren't for free agency, do you think we'd be talking about a possible strike next season?

That why I love College Hockey! It's not all about making the big money, or switching teams (usually).

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