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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The best reclamation project was Alex Tanguay. That worked out to the Flames having to take David Jones salary for someone else to take Tanguay's salary.
Stajan was an internal reclamation project... He once was at a point that he was basically playing out the end of his contract and was un-tradeable.... Then he refocused and played better for a short time and now he has another long term 3.15M deal to be the Flames 4th line centre next year behind Monahan, Bennett and Backlund.... unless Granlund, Rienhart, Colborne, Bouma, Byron or Knight or Arnold or even Jankowski bump him further down the depth chart.
There are very few examples of long term reclamation projects when the player has 10M in earnings (Tanguay, Stajan, Cheechoo, Setoguchi, Penner) and needs a special set of circumstances to play up to their capabilities.
Can anyone come up with an example that goes contrary to this?
PS. When the Flames were in win-now mode Morrison was picked up off the retirement heap and had a great year.... but that was more of a adding a grizzled veteran playing hard to get another year or two.
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Tanguay was a very good reclamation project. Was in-tough to find another contract, and came to Calgary and did well. Up until he got injured in Colorado last year, was doing well there too. The trade has ZERO to do with him being a good or a bad reclamation project.
As for Morrison, what exactly is the difference between him and Setoguchi at the moment? Setoguchi was a very late signing, so few (if any) other teams were interested. Morrison only managed to get a PTO. They are reclamation projects in this case because they were both at the end of their careers as NHL players. Age doesn't change this. Morrison managed to get signed by the Flames and had his career extended a bit longer with a decent performance. Setoguchi is hoping for exactly the same thing, no?