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Originally Posted by Poe969
Can someone please explain to me how his contract with the Flames was a hometown discount? Honestly, I don't know why people keep calling it that. It wasn't like he went from a 9 million dollar contract to a 6 million dollar contract, he left a little money on the table to get a full NTC or NMC or whatever and he got term. He was not ever good enough to get top dollar, term and an NTC.
Great guy and all and valued his time here when he contributed but people are making him out to be a saint or something for all the money he left on the table with that huge hometown discount he gave the Flames.
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yeah, the numbers he had here were inflated due to the guys he was playing with...not many teams would have given him PP time, top line time, even top six would have been a stretch elsewhere.
He probably could have gone out and signed some big deal...he would have likely been bought out as well