This is a Glen Sather specialty. Well, actually, it was a Glen Sather specialty.
Oh I'm sure Jeff Gorton had a say in some of the moves made by Sather when he was looking at his yearly reclamation projects. Some of them are successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams -- let's ignore how the Rangers somehow let him walk and just bask in the glow of Anton Stralman being a throwaway in the NHL at one point in his career -- and some of them are complete failures.
The good news? The risk involved on Sather making a move for Sean Avery or Stralman is the same as Sather going after Ryan Malone or Matthew Lombardi.