Eagles drop $11M+ in bids on day 1

Eagle braintrust followed through on its promise to be aggressive in the free agent auction by offering $11.75M to 6 players hours after the RHL17 feeding frenzy opened.

"Why not cut to the chase in the auction?" offered GM Bourdeau in a press conference discussing the bids. "There's no point dinking around with low ball offers on quality players. Any bid we make is a serious one to players we want on our team. Now we sit back and see what happens."

Eagles Ryan Smyth ($3M) and Mark Parrish ($1.3M) seem to be targets of the team, which chose not to meet either player's demand during the season. Upgrading the team's defense also looks to be a priority, as both Wade Redden and Rob Blake received $3M bids, with Michael Rozsival getting $850k. Checking winger Ethan Moreau was offered $600k.

When asked whether these bids right off the bat were a challenge to the RHL's other GMs, Bourdeau responded with, "The way our auction is built, any bid is a challenge to the rest of the league to go a step above or get out of the game. Everyone knows what they are looking for and what they are willing to pay for a certain player. "