While Dennis Wideman logged significant ice time last season and helped fill in when Mike Green missed 50 games with various injuries, GM George McPhee said that resigning Wideman didn’t fit into the Capitals’ future plans. So when the Calgary Flames expressed interest in Wideman prior to the draft, McPhee gave permission for the two sides to work out a contract. On Wednesday, when a deal was all but complete the Capitals traded Wideman’s negotiating rights to the Flames for a fifth-round draft pick in 2013 and impending free agent Jordan Henry.
Immediately after the trade, the Flames announced they signed Wideman to a five-year, $26.25-million deal.
How is Wideman worth $5.25 million a year? Each year I prepare for some crazy contracts and each year I'm still shocked. But then some idiot is paying Tim Connolly $4.75 million to sleep walk through a season of hockey. Ryan Suter is likely doing cartwheels right now in anticipation of the truck full of money that is coming his way.
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