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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Haha! Calgary sucks so bad now that we have to overpay Stajan to stay. I'd have expected 2.5. Seriously, he would be KHL bound next year if the Flames don't sign him. He is worth more than nothing (i.e. letting him walk) but no team in the NHL wants him, so why so much money and term?
He is still cheaper and better than D Jones.
And as long as there is no NMC goofiness I can live with it.
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I think you are drastically undervaluing him if you think he'd be KHL bound, but I agree, things are bad enough right now that we will have to overpay for lesser players. I can't think of a single UFA that would be excited to play here. Come join our rebuild that really truely is just getting started. It's not like we can even sell we'll be a contender in the back 2 years of a 4 year contact. It really is play out the entire contract you sign with us on a crappy re-building team.
So you are going to have to overpay for guys to give them a premium to endure, and you have to find guys who like it here like Stajan. The good news, it's not like we would have used the cap space elsewhere so it doesn't really hurt us in the overpayment department.