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Originally Posted by cowtown75
Colborne scored 19 last year and is a pretty good penalty killer himself. Joe's career PPG- 0.45. Frolik's PPG- 0.46. And big Joe is younger with more upside IMO but is not and shouldn't be a solid 2nd liner. I was just trying to state the opinion that Frolik is more of a 3rd liner and his contract is kinda expensive and may haunt us down the line is all. It's just my opinion that you should be paying bonafied 2nd liners 5.5 m for 4-5 years instead of a floater who is best suited on a 3rd line and has 3rd line career stats.
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Who's a floater? If you're suggesting it's Frolik then I'm not sure we're watching the same team. Colborne doesn't have the all around game and smarts that Frolik has. Why are you talking about 5.5 million? Frolik's cap hit is 4.3 million, that's the only number that matters. Frolik is an elite 3rd liner or a solid 2nd liner. I doubt his contract will ever really hurt that much as he's solidly in his prime and there's no reason to think his game will drop off significantly during this entire contract. You always overpay for UFAs so that he's slightly overpaid is to be expected since he was signed as an UFA.
Frolik is the least of our worries. Flames don't really have any crippling long term contracts IMO.