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Originally Posted by Corral
Iginla is a good example. He scored 50 goals and i think won the Art Ross trophy in 2002 and helped Canada win gold ... and the Flames sign him to a 2 year deal - at big money granted. Cheap cheap cheap ....
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Well the financial situation in the league was completely different at that point, you seem to be ignoring that. We were actually on the verge of having to be moved in the early 2000's, do you remember that? Remember when sell outs were rare?
Sutter managed to re-sign Iginla, Regehr AND Kiprusoff despite most people thinking it would be impossible to retain all of them. Was that the Flames being cheap? I don't think so. They paid Iginla 7 million a decade or so ago, that's huge money for back then. Probably equivalent to 10+ million these days. So Gaudreau at 7.5? Not going to be a problem.
Your conclusions are questionable.