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Originally Posted by edslunch
Exactly, however he may well have been promised a game in order to take a year off his ELC
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Of course he was (although, in Gaudreau's situation, I believe he would have burned the ELC year and collected the signing bonus whether he played in Vancouver or not).
There's a huge difference between promising a guy NHL games at the end of the season to get the player his signing bonus and burning a year off his ELC (especially when you're in the Flames' situation of being well out of the playoffs), and promising a guy an NHL roster spot to start the season.