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Chris Gratton
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Chris Gratton

Philadelphia Flyers, 1997

The Flyers were burned not only by his contract (five years worth $16.5 million), but the talent they gave Tampa Bay -- Mikael Renberg and Karl Dykhuis -- in order to sign the restricted free agent. Less than two seasons later, the Flyers sent him back to the Lightning for Renberg and Daymond Langkow.

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