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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Once again, since you clearly need help on this front: The 50 contract issue only becomes a problem if we go deeper in our playoffs than Portland does in theirs. WE CANNOT KEEP BAERTSCHI FOR ANY REASON ONCE WE GET ANOTHER FORWARD HEALTHY. There is no way it can happen. None. Zero. Impossible. He must be returned to Portland at that point, and this is not negotiable.
It took a perfect storm of injuries for him to come up in the first place and to suggest that Feaster should have planned for something like this is, frankly, idiotic. Especially since there is no justifiable reason to burn a year of his ELC. Because if we did, people like you would be trashing him three years from now for wasting a year of Baertschi's contract when he's making $4 million+ instead of $1 million on the next deal.
And that does not even touch on the stupidity of your suggestion to get rid of Backlund's contract, even though there is no way we can do that either.
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What!?!!?!!?!?
1) I am not versed on the CBA - some posters are saying if we had 49 contracts we could infact (I assume sign him?) and keep him here from now til our season/hopefully post-season ends? (hence wishing we had 49, not 50 contracts in-house).
2) We are in agreement, that even Sven our lord and saviour still ages? If he's not aging and infact immortal then we are not wasting his NHL career by letting him to return to Portland - I apologize. On a team that spends to cap every year, a team that pays J-bo 6.68M/ Stajan 3.5M / Comeau 2.5/ etc etc, why would I care if someones eligibilty comes 1 year sooner? lol? If your telling me as I think you are, that he, by staying up now (when we need him more than ever) is going to cost us 1 whole season sooner, a whopping 3,4,5 million more than he would make, where is my cheque book??
Seriously guys?? if the drawback is paying him real money 1 year earlier than projected, but were getting this kind of performance from him down the stretch and hopefully into the post-season... I dont know where your heads are, truly.
The only thing going to waste is talent that would be better served playing in the big league vs. tearing up a boys league.
Shame on you CP, so easily apologetic to players like CT, like Backs etc. that havent shown a thing in a flames jersey, but when real talent appears (nm actually backs it up with important goals in important games) you discount it and instead pretend to worry about the "overall state of this franchise"...Iggy and Kipper are real and there here now...this maybe their final hours, this is when you pull out the stops.