"When you spend that type of investment as a player, you expect he's going to play," Leitão said laughing. "The whole thing started when one day [general manager] Niki Budalic called me and said, 'Hey, we may have a chance to bring Dwyer,'" Leitão said. "From the very first second we said, this is the man, we want him. Then we started a long, long, exhaustive negotiation that had tons of chapters, and finally we finished today.