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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Franchises don't WANT to sign players. It is a waste to do so.
So, if we had signed Erixon immediately to a standard 3 year ELC after his draft, what would happen?
The last 2 years would be eaten up in Sweden. We would then have only 1 year left of his ELC. It doesn't make any organizational sense to sign European players to an ELC if they are not joining your club or AHL farm team. You maintain rights without costing $$, and even more importantly, not wasting the cheap years. It isn't a fault of Sutter's - if he had signed him, and Erixon went to Sweden, then we would be really mad.
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So that would be why Erixon is fed up with the Flames organization.
Rundblad ---- exact same path as Erixon becomes a RFA in 2013 -14 where Erixon has to wait till 2014-15.
Rundblad is also walking around with $90,000 signing bonus while playing on the same team as Erixon in Sweden.
Relative to Rundblad and Backlund the Flames disrespected Erixon.
The first year of Backlund's EL contract got burned while he was playing for Kelowna.
PS. Cap Geek has Erixon on the Rangers at 1.75 M cap hit. As it is the last year of the CBA there is no deferral of the EL bonus to the next year if required....
At 1.75M Erixon would have to be a lot better than Carson/Mikkelson/Pardy or would be playing in the AHL at 67,500. Negrin and Brodie both will be < $800K cap hits in the NHL ie can have both of them on the roster for less cap space than Erixon