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Originally Posted by StrykerSteve
Watching his reaction when Scott Oake asked him about that tonight... I'm not holding my breath waiting for him to re-sign here. That looked and sounded like a guy that knows this story, recognizes this a peak, but knows there will be plenty of valleys ahead. He didn't look remotely interested in putting himself through that again.
I kind of hope I'm wrong, because if he's playing like he is right now, he's the best goal-scorer on this team, but I believe he's out of here the first chance he gets.
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I think he'd be crazy to not test the market, but I bet nobody is going to give him more than 3 years at his age and contenders up aganst the cap will probably offer 2 max at a pretty low rate.
The flames are going to be able to offer him more money and why not take it... inflate his numbers getting tonnes of ice and powerplay time playing with friends and then move to a contender at the deadline next year if things go badly with a bigger payday.
Then again Burke's failure to get him a shot at the playoffs this year probably hurts the trust in that scenario.