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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Ha - not sure why I, and all of the rest of us, keep beating this thing - but here I go again anyway.
If the Flames obviously wanted to keep Byron, they would have qualified him - and not risked losing him to free agency or alienating him by not qualifying. They obviously wanted to keep Colborne - and so they qualified him, at the risk of the arbitration process.
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Or the Flames were confident that any UFA offers Byron might have received would have not significantly differ enough from the Flames' offer and were willing to risk it to avoid arbitration. They obviously felt that Colborne could potentially have offers that the Flames would have been less excited about matching and thought the risk of arbitration was worth keeping him from FA.