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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
The Flames would be bringing up players like Bonino who went 5-13-18 in 50 games as a 23 year old compared to Byron's 7-14-21 in 47 games. Bonino signed a 700,000 contract.
The Flames management gave nearly 9M to Engelland, an obvious over-payment. They weren't afraid of the sub-million dollar contract that Byron would have been awarded in arbitration. He wasn't qualified so they were perfectly prepared to lose him in UFA. After the frenzy they gave him a contract, pretty obvious this was Plan B and not some avoid arbitration at all costs plan, at least to me.
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Agreed.
It's nice to have an inside source here at CP!