manilaNJ
Optimism: Unwavering
Lou was confusing this summer. I know he tried hard to get Parise... but he had no interest in Semin and let Poni go.... Poni got one year at 1.8 mil. I don't think Lou was going to have a problem matching that..
Poni just wasn't going to wait around. He's been sent from team to team over the past few years, he was going to jump at whoever showed the most interest. He never heard from Lou.
Other than some near-minimum contracts to the fourth liners, it wasn't til Lou officially threw down the ~$80 million offer that he started signing anyone else.
It was going to be a big contract, I think he wanted to be sure how much money he had to work with before doing anything else.