you can jam a team up but you have to be very selective. signing pekovic and parsons to kobe's contract is not selective.

in the NHL edmonton did it briefly but in all cases they were willing to get stuck with the players. they kind of screwed buffalo but looking at the return they ultimately for vanek, it was fine. they did ultimately screw themselves, because they wound up with dustin penner as a "marquee player" who managed 20 goals and a minus 20 for $5M a year.

i remember some hubub about bob clarke signing ryan kesler to an offer sheet, but the sheet was modest enough that i thought nothing of it personally.