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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
You can't possibly be that short sighted. You realize that his salary is going to increase each contract if you want to keep him? You realize that you are setting a salary structure with that contract. If Baertschi scores 88 points to O'Reilly's 55 next year are you going to pay him $8M on his next contract??
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I clearly can be that short sighted apparently.
If Baertschi ends up with 88 points (which no one knows will ever happen and he hasn't shown a flicker of yet), that contract issue is a good problem to have.
You essentially have too many solid players and not enough money (you have a solid point producing player who you now have to figure out how to keep). That's a Chicago Blackhawk problem. Calgary Flames problems over the last 5 years are typically completely different, i.e. trying to figure out what fringe players to add to the aging core or what players we can attempt to rebuild into actual productive players.
I'll take this problem in a couple years over our current problems and over imaginary prospects/imaginary draft position.