[News] Flames only qualify 4 players. 9 go to UFA on July 1st (incl Jooris, Colborne, Ortio)

[Calgary4LIfe]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

I said "even if it is true", not that it is true. Big difference.

The Flames ultimately did not want Colborne, it doesn't matter if they didn't want him at a certain price. Fact of the matter is they didn't sign a 44 point player for $2.5 million. That speaks for itself.

Price matters to EVERY SINGLE PLAYER in the league. A team has a cap, and has to build towards that cap. That's it.

The Flames wanted Colborne back. Period.

The Flames were not prepared to give out x amount of dollars and/or x amount of term. Period.

Colborne decided to go to the Avs when there was indeed a bona fide offer on the table to keep him in Calgary. Treliving made reference to the Flames' offer at the press conference that day (or the next day - can't recall exactly now).

[GoJetsGo]

There's just no point in talking to someone like that.

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Calgaryblood cementing his reputation as one of the worst posters here I see. Carry on

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

Price matters to EVERY SINGLE PLAYER in the league. A team has a cap, and has to build towards that cap. That's it.

The Flames wanted Colborne back. Period.

The Flames were not prepared to give out x amount of dollars and/or x amount of term. Period.

Colborne decided to go to the Avs when there was indeed a bona fide offer on the table to keep him in Calgary. Treliving made reference to the Flames' offer at the press conference that day (or the next day - can't recall exactly now).

Exactly.
Treliving said along along they wanted Colborne to be a Flame. He also always qualified that statement by saying it had to make sense for everyone involved, including the player.
The amount the Flames ultimately had available for a RW turned out to be about 1M. Who knows what exactly the offer to Colborne was, but Treliving absolutely wasn't going to handcuff himself while negotiations with Gaudreau and Monahan were still going on, so I'll bet it wasn't much more than that.
Not surprising that Colborne moved on, and that money went to Versteeg instead.

[saillias]

Colborne just wanted legal bud imo.

[trumpethead]

Calgaryblood = Colbovertime

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by FBI

How many years did Colborne sign for them?

for the rest of his career

[ClubFlames]