When a team like the Colorado Avalanche takes on a player later in his career for a relatively short contract, he’s seen as a rental player. Generally these players were once elite talents and still show levels of brilliance unavailable to your role player even in his prime.
This was the case with the great Teemu Selanne, whom we only got to have for a year. This is certainly the case with Jarome Iginla, who will always be remembered as a Calgary Flame first and foremost.
This looked to be the case with defenseman Francois Beauchemin. We acquired him in free agency last summer and signed him to a three-year-contract worth $13.