It's rare that you get a chance to add a player of this caliber to your football team.

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The Pirates have even made it known they would be willing to add a player or two, most likely hitters, prior to the July 31 trading deadline.

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"Throughout this process our focus was to add a player who could provide a boost to our offense, improve our goal scoring and power play, and we identified Marian Gaborik as the player we wanted, " general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said.

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