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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I agree, but it's not like they have the choice to give Gio $9M or $6M. Giordano has the choice to get his asking price elsewhere too. You sometimes have to overpay to keep arguably your most important player.
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Yes and I guess my point is that the Flames (including playoffs) went 5 games over. 500 over the equivalent of just over a 3rd of a season. They can win without Gio.
The Flames have to truly evaluate what they are trying to build and when they are trying to build it by. I think they are still 2 years away from being truly super elite. I think you start the season with Gio, try to convince him to be part of something special over the next 7 seasons at something like 5.5 and if he says no you trade him.
Being sentimental about such a thing is the worst thing Treliving can do. Even if the cap goes up by 3-4 percent a year paying Gio 8-10 percent of cap value (assuming something north of 7 a year) would be crippling in the backend of a contract.