The worst way to build a team is to wait until July 1st and spend all your cap flexibility like a drunken mother at a Walmart Black Friday sale (...is it obvious I’m American?) in hopes that bringing home a cart full of crap will make up for a year of bad parenting.
Not the best analogy perhaps, but regardless the best part of armchair critiquing the opening day of NHL free agency is to see who throws the worst money at what player so we can all point and laugh at them. Last year many could argue Benning’s deal for Loui Ericksson was one such deal, but since Vancouver is going for round three or four of transforming their squad into Team Sweden, maybe he was just ahead of the curve.