NHL hockey is a game generally played every other day. Apparently, San Jose Sharks GM Doug Wilson is carrying that rhythm into the 2010 off-season.
The Sharks entered the off-season with a handful of high profile free agents, knowing they would need to make some tough decisions. On Tuesday, the team announced they were parting ways with Evgeni Nabokov . The announcement was not a surprise to many, but the timing was curious to some. Why not wait until the free agency period began to make such a decision?
That curiosity was resolved on Thursday, when Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski were each signed to four-year deals. Wilson had made his decision to part with Nabokov early enough to give him the time to re-sign the other two highest-profile free agents on the 2009-2010 team befo ...
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