In the wake of Lowe's desperate bid to pry Vanek out of Buffalo (and to stay the executioners hand), the Pittsburgh Penguins decided to sign Sidney Crosby to a 5 year, $45M contract extension.
I think it would polite and appropriate if Sid sent Lowe a thank-you card.
EDIT - Apparently Ovechkin agrees with me:
"I think Pittsburgh wasted no time offering Crosby the deal because of what Edmonton did trying to sign a restricted free agent. Any Canadian team (and not only Canadian) could have offered great terms to Crosby in the future. And who knows if the Penguins could have matched it. But now Sindey is staying in Pittsburgh, and will stay there beyond 2013, in my opinion."
