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Originally Posted by kehatch
Maybe, but the fact is that the Flames were unable to trade for him last season and Colorado matched the offer sheet. So he will be REALLY expensive to acquire. Remember that Flames ownership vetoed a trade to acquire Seguin and O'Reilly won't come much cheaper.
Plus, he will be expensive to keep. It will take 6.5 million to qualify him. That is cornerstone franchise player money.
You get five (maybe six) guys to build your franchise around. They are the guys you pay more then 5M per to on long term contracts. They take about half the teams salary.
Is O'Reilly a guy to build the franchise around? If the Flames think so then paying a large price to get him and signing him to a big long term contract isn't out of the question.
Personally I think O'Reilly could be a core guy once you already have your Duchene, Tavares, Toews, etc. But the Flames aren't there yet. I think giving up the assets and paying that type of salary when you don't have any other core pieces ready is the wrong thing to do.
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You can take him to arbitration to lower his QO to 5.1M or something like that. If we could get him for that, ROR-Monahan down the middle would be solid.