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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Why didn't Parise ask for $14M in free agency?
Just because you qualify a player doesn't mean he'll sign, either. The Avs qualified ROR and he still didn't sign.
The qualifying offer value means nothing. The player can assign any arbitrary value they want to determine how much they will sign for, just as ROR did with the Avalanche. What if ROR asks for $10M in 2 years. Woe is us. What will we do? He's the one who has to sign on the dotted line in the end.
What if Brodie asks for $5M? Will he get it?
The qualifying amount is absolutely meaningless. It's simply a number used to retain RFAs longer so you can negotiate with them more.
The Flames will have an entire year to negotiate with ROR.
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I don't think you understand what a qualifying offer is. In order to keep a player a RFA (and not a UFA), a team must qualify them at a certain amount. The player has the option to accept this amount or hold out for more. Clearly, O'Reilly would just accept the QO if the Flames qualified him (unless he suddenly becomes a top 20 player in the league). But if the Flames decline to qualify him, it makes him a UFA. Then he's free game to all teams.
A qualifying offer is not some pie in the sky number of what the player wants. There's a huge difference between what the qualifying offer is and what the player is demanding.