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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
It's easy to be ruthless in the NFL when you can cut a player lose at any moment during the contract.
Think the Flames are fine signing Gio to a be deal for 4-5 years. Monahan, Bennett, Gaudreau will all need new deals in that time frame(obviously) but signing them won't eat up any UFA years yet. Signing Gio to that deal won't cripple us, it will only add 2-3 million on top of the 4 million cap hit he already eats up.
Big money coming off the books at 36-37 is fine for Gio.
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You have to be even smarter in the NHL because you can't cut them. The deal won't start until he is 33 and he will already be on the downside. From a business standpoint I don't want to give him more than 2 years. I would go as high as 3 because he is the captain. I think that anything longer than 3 at 8 (and I have no reason to doubt Transplant) is bad business... If that doesn't do it, we can get a very nice return for him. We need to find a defenseman who is worth 8 at 24, not 33 and build around that guy. Maybe it's Brodie. Maybe it the guy we trade Giordano for...