In fact, the combination of desperate managers and the January deadline has created a chaotic scramble in which squandering millions has become soccer's new mid-season tradition.
Peca, who recorded the first multiple-goal game of his college career and now has 15 tallies this season, beat Troy Grosenick with a backhander off a rebound scramble 9:46 in to start it off.
Of course, once the lockout ended, it was a scramble, leaving LaBarbera and everyone else less than a week and no preseason games to get ready for the regular season.