No question about it. Belfour is way overpaid. Brodeur should set the standard, however, he wasn't on the market this year. Had he been on the market, he would have been looking at $7 million. I think. Khabibulin really messes things up. I think the good news about his deal is that everyone sees that Chicago overpaid for most of their free agents.

Chicago would have been better off saving money by resigning Berard than bringing in Spacek. And they should have just resigned Thibault. The guy stood on his head for them the last couple of years while they were rebuilding, and they repaid him by replacing him with a more expensive model.

The good news for Thibault, who will be making $1.5 million with the Penguins, is that he will be playing behind what might be the highest scoring offense in the league. Already stacked with Lemieux, Recchi, Palffy, Crosby, and Gonchar (anyone ever actually see this guy play defense?), they just added power forward John Leclair. Granted, Leclair hasn't been quite as effective in recent years, but he's still got soft hands around the net, and with this team, he's going to finish a lot of plays.

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