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Originally Posted by JayP
It was reported that St. Louis wanted the Flames to eat some J-Bouw's salary for next year and the Flames refused. That says a lot about how committed this team is to a rebuild. There's not a lot of instances where you can pay straight up cash for additional/better picks or prospects.
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sports radio in St Louis suggested/speculated the Blues wanted the Flames to keep up to 50% of Bouw salary. If true, easily understandable why ownership wouldn't want to do that
You can buy a better player in free agency with $3.3M than giving it away to another team