Suter, formerly of the Nashville Predators, was the top defenseman on the NHL's free-agent market and signed a deal of identical length and dollars, and he and Parise are now charged with re-energizing amoribund franchise in a hockey-crazed region.
We would usually say a country with a 4% of GDP current account deficit and a fairly moribund domestic economy was a country in need of a hefty fall in its currency.