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By Derek Van Diest, SUN MEDIA There are many reasons the Edmonton Oilers pursued Dany Heatley with such vigour. His obvious scoring ability aside, it's unlikely the Oilers would have been able to land a high-scoring winger through free agency. At least not without dumping a load of salary first. “We have a full roster of signed players,” said Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini. “So unless we’re making a trade and players are going out, it’s hard right now to bring people in. That’s why a lot of our discussion leading up to the draft and free agency period revolved around some sort of player movement. But it’s very hard as you can see, there is still not a lot of movement out there.” The Oilers already have roughly over $51-million committed in salary for the upcoming season. And that’s without having re-signed defencemen... [read full story]
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