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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
But like. The dude will be 29 when his current contract is up. What business do the Flames have offering a 29-year-old a long-term contract when they don't currently have anything resembling a core?
This is a clear-cut pump-and-dump situation. The Flames aren't a full Kuzmenko season away from the Cup, or even making the playoffs. They need to be bottoming out.
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There is a lot of wiggle room between long-term contract and pump-and-dump. The OP suggested 4 years, I think if you can get a two-year deal, that's optimal, but anything between 2 and 4 years is fine.
I agree with Bingo that you don't have to do it in the summer - we have too small of a sample size on him. Let's see what he looks like for the first 40 games of next season, and then assess.
But as FBI and others have said, there might be a really good player there - no need to immediately hit the pump-and-dump button every time someone plays well. His addition to the PP has made it dangerous for the first time in 2 years or more. We ask/expect STHs to cough up large sums of money every year, to support a team that we want to have here at home, so let's at least give them
some entertainment once in a while.