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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
$3m is 3rd liner money in UFA. At the time the team was flirting with the possibility of not being at the cap floor and BT had no idea how good Gaudreau and Monahan would become. Raymond was also coming off a decent year as far as a 3rd/2nd liner goes. It was unfortunate that his game deteriorated to the point where he is not an NHL player but I don't recall anyone here predicting that would happen at the time either. If Raymond had put up 35 goals and 70 points over the last two years combined, no one would care, especially if Gaudreau was a 50 point player and the team finished bottom 5 in 2015.
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One of these things happened, one of them didn't. Flames get Leafs player and he ends up sucking. Gee, I've never in my life ever heard that before as a Flames fan. Ever.
He's the Ales Kotalik of this Flames iteration. Junk. People blame Feaster for saddling the Flames with Wideman, and this signing is fair game also imo.
The Leafs took this player on a try out contract man, he was already all but done. Some caution would have been appreciated I guess.