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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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LOL you and me both...
I don't think there was much interest in Byron...and the Flames thought the same thing, that's why they didn't qualify him.
I don't think it was a slam dunk arbitration case for Byron either - if he was such a steal, he could have signed for more, on a one way contract, with another team.
At the same time, its a cheap deal for a decent player that doesn't hurt calgary longterm.
Byron was a 4 liner on the fourth worst team in the NHL...really nothing to see here...