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Originally Posted by gvitaly
The same reason SOB was bought out, even though he was only to be paid 2.2M this season. Bigger contracts lead to bigger expectations(both from the team and the player) which lead to bigger disappointments when a player doesn't deliver. The moment he starts being a healthy scratch, it will be very difficult to keep him as an overpaid 7th D, and its a slippery road to the minors and a buyout from there.
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SOB was bought out because of his lack of buy-in to the Flames hard-working culture. They didn't even want him around the kids. Had SOB been a hard-working player, even with the exact same results, the Flames would not have bought him out.