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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The price is important because if you are planning on dangling him at the deadline again this coming season, he has to be priced competitively in order to garner return, otherwise you're in the same boat the Flames found themselves in this season, where more attractive guys went for more substantial returns to a team like Ottawa, who have concerns about 'real dollars'.
Cammalleri at 1.75 million with 50% retained is a hell of a lot more enticing than Cammalleri at 3 million with 50% retained. It's also more enticing to Flames ownership.
I'd prefer to meet the cap floor by overpaying for a couple of players or taking them on as salary dumps than overpaying by nearly double for one guy who isn't very good.
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While true, I think the sticking point that made him untradeable was the fact that he'd have been a rental. Thats why the term is key. Get him locked to a minimum of 2 years and you get assets at the deadline. If hes paid $6M then we retain 50% and the team picking him up gets a signed player.
The two scenarios are in totally different worlds in terms of return on assets.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Obviously. But at $3.5m (in order to be at $1.75m) he doesn't sign here. So you've got nothing.
He is worth more than $3.5m as a UFA.
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Precisely.
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