The New Jersey Devils are no longer content with rebuilding.
Which is convenient, because their fans have been fed up with it for a long time. A once-storied franchise has gone back into Mickey Mouse mode in recent years, and there hadn't been this much anger in northern New Jersey since Bobby Bacala was killed off from The Sopranos.
Wednesday marked the start of NHL free agency, and the Devils wasted no time in attempting a home run swing on their offseason, signing defenseman Dougie Hamilton to a seven-year, $63 million contract.
This is not how the team has operated in recent years.