"NHL teams still have all the self-control of my wife at a shoe sale. Every year, there are several teams that leave a trail of disbelief around the league at the money they've lavished on free agents. This is a league whose owners once canceled an entire season because they whined that player salaries were out of control. But on Wednesday, the Tampa Bay Lightning gave a seven-year, $26.25 million contract to 32-year-old defenseman Mattias Ohlund. Never heard of Ohlund? You're not alone. Of course, wasting money has become a new Lightning tradition, as last summer it gave a three-year, $9 million contract to soft-as-a-pillow former Avs forward Radim Vrbata - who is now out of the NHL. Next on the "I can't believe they did that" list from Wednesday is the Toronto Maple Leafs, who gave Montreal defenseman Mike Komisarek a five-year, $22.5 million deal. Komisarek didn't even register a plus rating last season with the Canadiens, and he had two goals and 11 points in 66 games. Makes perfect sense a team would shell out nearly $5 million a year for that. Next up are the Columbus Blue Jackets, who gave Samuel Pahlsson nearly $8 million for three years. Pahlsson, once traded to the Bruins by the Avs as part of the Ray Bourque deal, is a decent player and this signing isn't as egregious as the others. But the Jackets still overpaid for someone who is mostly a glorified penalty killer."