What does three years and $12.75 million buy you? If you're the Carolina Hurricanes, it buys you a Stanley Cup winner who has posted good numbers from the blue line, which is exactly what Tomas Kaberle happens to be. The long time Maple Leaf was traded at the deadline last season to Boston, where he didn't exactly light up the stat sheets like he did in Toronto, but he did get to raise the Stanley Cup, something that another long time Maple Leaf Mats Sundin never did, despite having that chance when he was given an opportunity to play for a contending team at the deadline in the 2007-08 season. Kaberle will now join the team that his older brother Frantisek used to play for and won a Stanley Cup with in Carolina. Though he is 33, Kaberle could be the power play quarterback that Carolina needs and one that he wasn't in his short time in Boston. Carolina is also less of a pressure cooker than Toronto or Boston, which should be a good thing for a guy who is used to the pressure and (mostly) succeeding. The only issue: the dollar figures for the contract. $4 million a year (on average) sounds a little excessive, but given that most teams seem to overpay for talent this year (and every other year), this deal sounds relatively sane.
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