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Originally Posted by dammage79
First Negotiation rights? Not to get into a bidding battle with other teams? Try not to use your head too much to figure that one out.
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so as the flames are a rebuilding team, and likely not a cap team, you want to dish tanguay to essentially woo raymond to save ~1-1.5 mill on his contract as opposed to acquiring picks/prospects that could potentially jump start the rebuild? or give us a slightly better chance of signing him.
end of the day, raymond has to choose calgary, so why not wait till FA